Language, Self and Love
Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolle
$178.11
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
5 February 2002
Summary
Language, Self and Love offers a unique insight into the development of the language of interiority in the medieval literature inspired by the Song of Songs and its commentaries. It traces the evolution of a medieval identity in the process of self-fashioning and, in showing the importance of mystical writing for understanding medieval subjectivity, suggests that the ‘self’ is not the early modern invention it is often claimed to be. Denis Renevey discusses the correspondences between the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780708316962 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0708316964 |
| Author: | Denis Renevey |
| Publisher: | University of Wales Press |
| Imprint: | University of Wales Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 5 February 2002 |
| Weight: | 426g |
| Dimensions: | 138mm x 216mm |
| Series: | University Of Wales Press - Writers Of Wales |
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Critics Review
‘innovatory and important […] this sounds a very exciting book’ ‘no other scholar […] has covered the range of reference which Dr Renevey outlines in his proposal, and he is perhaps uniquely qualified among current scholars to provide an in-depth study’ ‘this study will break new ground and will give a firm intellectual basis to the study of mystical writings’
Denis Renevey
Denis Renevey is a lecturer in Medieval Literature at the Universities of Fribourg and Lausanne. He is the co-editor of Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England and the author of numerous articles dealing with medieval mysticism.
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