TY - BOOK ID - 1821074 TI - Richard Rolle and the invention of authority PY - 1992 SN - 0521390176 0521033152 0511597568 0511877331 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Old English literature KW - Christian spirituality KW - Rolle, Richard KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Devotional literature, English (Middle) KW - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Mysticism KW - Invention (Rhetoric) KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Rolle, Richard, KW - Authorship. KW - Rhetoric KW - Ermyte, Richard, KW - Richard Ermyte, KW - Hampole, Richard Rolle of, KW - Rolle of Hampole, Richard, KW - Rolle de Hampole, Richard, KW - Richard Rolle, KW - ROLLE (RICHARD) KW - DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE KW - MIDDLE ENGLISH KW - AUTHORITY IN LITERATURE KW - MYSTICISM KW - ENGLAND UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1821074 AB - This 1991 book is a literary study of the career of Richard Rolle (d.1349), a Yorkshire hermit and mystic who was one of the most widely read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a chronology of Rolle's writings, and offers a literary analyses of a number of his works. He shows how Rolle's career, as a writer of passionate religious works in Latin and later in English, has as its principal focus the establishment of his own spiritual authority. The book also addresses wider issues, suggesting an alternative way of looking at mystical writing in general and challenging the prevailing view of the relationship between medieval and renaissance attitudes to authors and authority. ER -