Rolle of Hampole, Richard
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Rolle of Hampole, Richard (
c.1300–49), English hermit and spiritual writer. He appears to have been a native of N. Yorkshire and to have studied at
Oxford. At the age of 18 he became a hermit; he spent the last years of his life near the convent of
Cistercian nuns at Hampole.
The canon of his writings contains: (1) biblical commentaries; (2) Latin treatises, including
Incendium Amoris and
Emendatio Vitae (both later translated into English);(3) English treatises, including
The Form of Living, written for the recluse Margaret Kirkby; and(4) a number of English poems. His authorship of the English
Meditations on the Passion is uncertain. The contemplative life, in his view, begins with the experience of ‘the opening of Heaven's door’ and is thereafter characterized by ‘heat’, ‘sweetness’, and ‘angel-song’.
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Rolle's Ego dormio in manuscript Trinity College Dublin 155 (1). (Linguistics).
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; 1. Introduction Richard Rolle of Hampole, a hermit in Yorkshire, was born about 1300 (perhaps a year...texts have much in common, as some of the most important works by Rolle can be found in the same manuscript. The text in CUL Dd V 64...
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Mind your language
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 1/30/1999; ; 601 words
; ...been so clear. Moment always (from the 14th century) meant, as it does now, 'a brief portion of time'; Richard Rolle of Hampole put it neatly: 'A moment of tyme es nan othir thyng, Bot a short space als of a eghe twynklyng.' Other meanings...
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Visions of God: Four Medieval Mystics and Their Writings.
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/24/1995; ; 517 words
; ...West. Armstrong chooses four English mystics about whom she writes and whose writings she excerpts. They are Richard Rolle of Hampole and The Fire of Love; Walter Hilton and The Ladder of Perfection; Dame Julian of Norwich and Revelations of...
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THE HIERARCHY OF VITAL FIRES.(types of fire defined, from 'cosmic fire' to 'inner fire')(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Whole Earth; 12/22/1999; 479 words
; ...changed into full lovely sound ... for heat and song cause a marvellous sweetness in the soul. --The Hermit of Hampole, Richard Rolle From Incendium Amoris, translated in The Fire of Love, F.M.M. Comper, ed.; 1920.
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Minding the Spirit: The Study of Christian Spirituality.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 10/18/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the purview of scholars. Indeed, in the 14th century Richard Rolle lamented, "Alas, the shame! That a little old lady...who know the 14th century will know that the hermit of Hampole wasn't entirely fair to the scholars of his day...
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Richard Rolle of Hampole
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Richard Rolle of Hampole The English prose and verse writer Richard Rolle of Hampole (ca. 1290-1349) gave the...influence on the 14th century. Richard Rolle of Hampole was neither a priest nor a monk...
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Rolle of Hampole, Richard
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Rolle of Hampole, Richard ( c. 1300–49), English hermit and spiritual writer...the last years of his life near the convent of Cistercian nuns at Hampole. The canon of his writings contains: (1) biblical commentaries...
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Rolle, Richard, of Hampole
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole ( c. 1300–49), one of the principal 14th-cent...became a hermit and lived at various places in Yorkshire, finally at Hampole near a Cistercian nunnery where he had disciples. Among these was...
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Rolle, Richard
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Rolle, Richard ( c. 1300–49). Christian hermit and mystic. Born near...hermit as a young man, latterly near the convent of Cistercian nuns at Hampole, where he died, perhaps of the Black Death. His writings, both in...
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Walter Hilton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...also composed a shorter Treatise Written to a Devout Man. His mysticism, typically English, resembles that of Richard Rolle of Hampole . Bibliography: See studies by J. E. Milosh (1966) and P. Hodgson (rev. ed. 1967).
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