Richard Rolle

"This volume presents a variety of mainly unpublished texts relating to the Yorkshire hermit, Richard Rolle. It contains a number of texts certainly by Rolle, but omitted from O.S. 293, Richard Rolle: Prose and Verse, ed. S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson (1988), including a new edition of Rolle's English lyrics, based upon a critical examination of all known manuscript witnesses. Three previously unpublished texts are included here because they were ascribed to Rolle in the Middle Ages. There are good grounds for considering one, a commentary on the lessons from the Office of the Dead, to be authentic Rolle, and Hanna argues that the second, 'Of thre wyrkyngs in mans saul' is probably so. The edition concludes with three unpublished Northern texts which, though anonymous, are devoted to the eremitical life."--BOOK JACKET.Hanna, Ralph is the author of 'Richard Rolle', published 2008 under ISBN 9780199236145 and ISBN 0199236143.