Medieval Mystical Tradition In England

Edited by Marin Glasscoe

Medieval Mystical Tradition In England
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Edited by Marin Glasscoe

Distributed for Liverpool University Press

268 pages | 8 x 5-9/10
Paper $34.95 ISBN: 9780859891837 Published January 1982 For sale in North and South America only

Symposium, approaching medieval mysticism from a range of perspectives, including literary, historical, theological and psychological points of view.

Contributions by
G. Bourquin, T. Bradley, J. Clark, Roger Ellis, Vincent Gillespie, B. Lorenzo, R. Lovatt, R. Maisonneuve, A. Minnis, D. Rogers, Michael G. Sargent and K. Watson

 
Contents
Margery Kempe and the Eastern and Western Tradition of the 'perfect fool'. 
    R. Maisonneuve
The Choices of the Translator in the Late Middle English Period 
    R. Ellis
Henry Suso and the Medieval Mystical Tradition in England 
    R. Lovatt 
The Sources of The Cloud of Unknowing: A Reconsideration 
    A. Minnis  
The Cloud of Unknowing and Vedanta 
    K. Watson  
Augustine, Anselm and Walter Hilton 
    J. Clark  
Christ the Teacher in Julian's Showings: the Biblical and Patristic Traditions 
    R. Bradley  
Psychotechnological Approaches to the teaching of the Cloud-author and to the Showings of Julian of Norwich 
    D. Rogers  
The Mystical Experience of Julian of Norwich with reference to the Epistle to the Hebrews ch. ix: Semiotic and Psychoanalytic Analysis 
    B. Lorenzo  
The Dynamics of the Signans in the Spiritual Quest (Piers Plowman, the Mystics and Religious Drama)      
    G. Bourquin  
Mystic's Foot: Rolle and Affectivity 
    V. Gillespie  
The Organization of the Scale of Perfection 
    M. Sargent
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