Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England
Jennifer Bryan
280 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4048-1 | $49.95 | £32.50
A volume in the Middle Ages Series
Bryan examines a wide range of devotional and secular texts, from works by Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and Thomas Hoccleve to explore the models of identification and imitation through which they sought to reach the inmost selves of their readers, and the scripts for spiritual desire that they offered for the cultivation of the heart.
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