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Denis Renevey.
Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolle and the Commentaries on the Song of Songs.
Published Cardiff: Wales U.P., 2001.
ISBN 0708316964;
ISBN-13: 9780708316962.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK: Dinefwr Press.
Size: 143×223×22mm.
Page count: xii,228pp.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: these copies were not supplied shrink-wrapped by the manufacturer, so show some evidence of long-term storage, the usual mild scuffs etc.

This item £6.00
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[Publisher’s price £45.00]
Weight without packaging: 435g.

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Language, Self and Love offers a unique insight into the development of the language of interiority in the medieval literature inspired by the Song of Songs and its commentaries. It traces the evolution of a medieval identity in the process of self-fashioning and, in showing the importance of mystical writing for understanding medieval subjectivity, suggests that the ‘self’ is not the early modern invention it is often claimed to be.

Denis Renevey discusses the correspondences between the discourse of love in the Song of Songs and the language of mysticism in the writings of William of St. Thierry and Richard Rolle, where the self is described in its attempts at establishing a direct relationship with God. He also shows how the textual strategies offered in mystical writing for the use of female recipients engage with questions of misogyny and the relationship between Latin and vernacular cultures.

Language, Self and Love will be an essential text for all those concerned with questions of subjectivity, mysticism and spirituality in the late medieval period. It offers new perspectives on both mystical commentaries and the language of interiority as it is interpreted after Augustine.
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