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Book The Scale of Perfection

Download or read book The Scale of Perfection written by Walter Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scale  or Ladder  of Perfection

Download or read book The Scale or Ladder of Perfection written by Walter Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scale of Perfection

Download or read book The Scale of Perfection written by Walter Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scale of Perfection

Download or read book Scale of Perfection written by Walter Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1475 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Secret Within

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  • Author : Wolfgang Riehle
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2014-02-07
  • ISBN : 0801470927
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book The Secret Within written by Wolfgang Riehle and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual seekers throughout history have sought illumination through solitary contemplation. In the Christian tradition, medieval England stands out for its remarkable array of hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders—from Cuthbert, Godric of Fichale, and Christina of Markyate to Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. In The Secret Within, Wolfgang Riehle offers the first comprehensive history of English medieval mysticism in decades—one that will appeal to anyone fascinated by mysticism as a phenomenon of religious life. In considering the origins and evolution of the English mystical tradition, Riehle begins in the twelfth century with the revival of eremitical mysticism and the early growth of the Cistercian Order in the British Isles. He then focuses in depth on the great mystics of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries—Richard Rolle (the first great English mystic), the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Walter Hilton, Margery Kempe, and Julian of Norwich. Riehle carefully grounds his narrative in the broader spiritual landscape of the Middle Ages, pointing out both prior influences dating back to Late Antiquity and corresponding developments in mysticism and theology on the Continent. He discusses the problem of possible differences between male and female spirituality and the movement of popularizing mysticism in the late Middle Ages. Filled with fresh insights, The Secret Within will be welcomed especially by teachers and students of medieval literature as well as by those engaged in historical, theological, philosophical, cultural, even anthropological and comparative studies of mysticism.

Book Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library  Including Those Formerly in Sion College Library

Download or read book Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library Including Those Formerly in Sion College Library written by Oliver S. Pickering and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handlist to manuscripts in one of Britain's major medieval repositories. Lambeth Palace Library, which dates from a bequest by Archbishop Bancroft in 1610, is one of England's major repositories of medieval manuscripts. More than half of the ninety-six manuscripts and documents containing items of Middle English prose were already present when the library was temporarily transferred to Cambridge in 1647. In the succeeding centuries further manuscript materials have continually been added, and within the last few years the library has become home to the older part of Sion College Library, an event that has added a further seven manuscripts to the present handlist. The collection at Lambeth is large enough to be fully representative of the corpus of Middle English prose: the Brut, the Wycliffite Bible, and Love's Mirror, for example, are all present, in some cases in multiple copies, as are writings by Hilton and Rolle. There are sermon cycles (including an almost complete set of Wycliffite sermons), medical recipes, historical works, and anthologies of religious treatises. Altogether the current handlist indexes almost 800 separate items, ranging from the veterinary to the liturgical. O.S. PICKERINGis Senior Assistant Librarian and Associate Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds; V.M. O'MARAis Lecturer in English at the University of Hull.

Book The Scale of Perfection

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  • Author : Walter Hilton
  • Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
  • Release : 2001-02-01
  • ISBN : 1580443931
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book The Scale of Perfection written by Walter Hilton and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Hilton's The Scale of Perfection maintains a secure place among the major religious treatises composed in fourteenth-century England. This guide to the contemplative life, written in two books of more than 40,000 words each, is notable for its careful explorations of its religious themes and also as a monument of Middle English prose. Its popularity is attested by the fact that some forty-two manuscripts containing one or both of the books survive, with a relatively large number of manuscipts with Book I alone, which suggests it may have been the more popular of the two. Hilton (born c. 1343) was a member of the religious order known as the Augustinian Canons. There is reason to believe that be was trained in canon law and studied at the University of Cambridge. He was the author of a number of works in English and Latin, all much shorter than The Scale. He died at the Augustinian Priory of Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire in 1396. On the basis of the content of certain of his works it can be safely inferred that he was actively involved in some of the religious controversies current in England in the 1380s and 1390s, and his principal concern, evident in The Scale , is to defend orthodox belief, especially in the conduct of the contemplative life.

Book The Scale  or Ladder  of Perfection  Written by Walter Hilton

Download or read book The Scale or Ladder of Perfection Written by Walter Hilton written by and published by . This book was released on 1659 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reading Medieval Anchoritism

Download or read book Reading Medieval Anchoritism written by Mari Hughes-Edwards and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange, and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieval world.

Book The Scale or Ladder of Perfection

Download or read book The Scale or Ladder of Perfection written by Walter Hilton and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OF all the old English ascetical works which were extant before the Reformation none have maintained their reputation longer than Walter Hilton’s “Scale of Perfection.” Hilton was a canon of Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire, and died in 1395. His “Scale of Perfection” is found in no less than five MSS. in the British Museum alone. Wynkyn de Worde printed it at least three times—in the years 1494, 1519 and 1525. Many other editions were printed at the same period. Aeterna Press

Book The Scale  or Ladder  of Perfection  Written by Walter Hilton

Download or read book The Scale or Ladder of Perfection Written by Walter Hilton written by Walter Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1659 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scale Or Ladder of Perfection

Download or read book The Scale Or Ladder of Perfection written by Brother Hermenegild and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a photographic reprint of the original to insure accuracy. OF all the old English ascetical works which were extant before the Reformation none have maintained their reputation longer than Walter Hilton's "Scale of Perfection." Hilton was a canon of Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire, and died in 1395. His "Scale of Perfection" is found in no less than five MSS. in the British Museum alone. Wynkyn de Worde printed it at least three times-in the years 1494, 1519 and 1525. Many other editions were printed at the same period. After the Reformation it was a favourite book of Father Augustine Baker's, the well-known author of "Sancta Sophia," and his comments on it are among his manuscripts at Downside. In 1659 Father Baker's biographer and editor, Dom Serenus Cressy, O.S.B., published an edition of the "Scale," the title-page of which claims that "by the changing of some antiquated words [it is] rendered more intelligible." Another edition appeared in 1672, and yet another in 1679. Within our own times two editions have been published-one by the late Father Ephrem Guy, O.S.B., in 1869, the other, a reprint of Cressy's, in 1870.

Book English Mystics of the Middle Ages

Download or read book English Mystics of the Middle Ages written by Barry A. Windeatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-29 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First collection of late medieval English mystical writing, which has been newly edited with notes and glossary.

Book Mixed Life

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  • Author : Walter Hilton
  • Publisher : SLG Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0728301563
  • Pages : 65 pages

Download or read book Mixed Life written by Walter Hilton and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 138 Walter Hilton (c.1343-96) offers clear and practical advice for Christians trying to balance their duty towards others with a drawing towards prayer and contemplation. He says that there is no fixed order of priority in these things, and Christ himself gives us the supreme example of the ‘mixed life’. A fresh translation into modern English.

Book Walter Hilton Collection  2 Books

Download or read book Walter Hilton Collection 2 Books written by Walter Hilton and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: