This unit will be mainly concerned with the English writers of the 14th Century: Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Walter Hilton and the Cloud of Unknowing.

Prerequisites

two units of Spirituality

Requirements

3 hours per week

Assessment

Required Reading

Each student should have available each of the following:

• Hilton, Walter. The Scale of Perfection. Translated by John P. H. Clark and Rosemary Dorward. Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist, 1991.
• Julian of Norwich. Revelations of Divine Love. Translated by Elizabeth Spearing. London: Penguin, 1999.
• Richard Rolle of Hampolle. The Fire of Love and the Mending of Life. Translated by Richard Misyn. Cosimo Classics. New York: Cosimo, 2007.
• Spearing, Anthony C., trans. The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works. London: Penguin, 2001.
• Walsh, James A., trans. and ed. “The Pursuit of Wisdom” and other works by the author of “The Cloud of Unknowing”. Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist, 1988.
• Windeatt, Barry A., trans. The Book of Margery Kempe. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1985.
  

Bibliography

• Cooper, Austin. The Cloud: Reflections on Selected Texts. Homebush, NSW: St Paul’s, 1989.
• ———. Julian of Norwich: Reflections on Selected Texts. Homebush, NSW: St Paul’s, 1986.
• Davis, Carmel B. Mysticism and Space: Space and Spatiality in the Works of Richard Rolle, the Cloud of Unknowing Author, and Julian of Norwich. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2008.
• Goodman, Anthony. Margery Kempe and Her World. London: Longmans, 2002.
• John-Julian. The Complete Julian of Norwich. Orleans, MA: Paraclete, 2009.
• Kennedy, David G. Incarnation and Hilton’s Spirituality. Salzburg: OLW, 1988.
• Knowles, David. The English Mystical Tradition. London: Burns & Oates, 1961.
• Lochrie, Karma. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
• Mursell, Gordon. English Spirituality. 2 vols. London: SPCK, 2001.
• Nuth, Joan M. God’s Lovers in an Age of Anxiety: The Medieval English Mystics. London: Drton, Longman and Todd, 2001.
• Windeatt, Barry, ed. The Book of Margery Kempe. Annotated ed. Library of Medieval Women. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001.