The Fire of Love

The Fire of Love
Author: Richard Rolle (of Hampole)
Publisher: CCEL
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1981
Genre: Devotional literature
ISBN: 161025192X

Richard Rolle, the English Writings

Richard Rolle, the English Writings
Author: Richard Rolle
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809130085

This volume includes a translation of the major prose works, several of the ascribed lyrics and a selection of the commentaries written in English by this fourteenth-century (c. 1300-1349) English mystical writer and hermit.

The English Prose Treatises of Richard Rolle

The English Prose Treatises of Richard Rolle
Author: Claire Elizabeth McIlroy
Publisher: DS Brewer
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781843840039

The author argues that in these devotional works (which appealed to a broad readership in late medieval England) Rolle successfully refines traditional affective strategies to develop an implied reader-identity, the individual soul seeking the love of God, which empowers each and every reader in his or her own spiritual journey."--Jacket.