Queering Richard Rolle - Mystical Theology and the Hermit in Fourteenth-Century England

This book examines three aspects of Rolle's thinking used throughout this work: his ontology, phenomenology, and sound ecology. These facets of his work invoke both a way of understanding being in the world, an opening up of the body in queer ways to experience the divine, and a way to consider divine contemplation in terms of singing the body. 
Queering Richard Rolle considers how Rolle navigates queer, eremitic conduct in order to create an identity always in process

List of contents

1 Introduction: Queering the Hermit.- 2: Richard Rolle's Eremitic Ontology.- 3 The Phenomenology of the Open Body.- 4 Ecology of Canor: An Aesthetics of Desire.- 5 Epilogue: Three Vignettes.- Bibliography.- Index.

About the author

Christopher M. Roman is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University, USA.

Summary

This book examines three aspects of Rolle’s thinking used throughout this work: his ontology, phenomenology, and sound ecology. These facets of his work invoke both a way of understanding being in the world, an opening up of the body in queer ways to experience the divine, and a way to consider divine contemplation in terms of singing the body. 
Queering Richard Rolle considers how Rolle navigates queer, eremitic conduct in order to create an identity always in process

Product details

• Authors: Christopher M Roman, Christopher M. Roman
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783319497747
• ISBN: 978-3-31-949774-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 217 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 333 g
• Illustrations: IX, 144 p.
• Series: The New Middle Ages; The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europa, C, Geschichte der Religion, Literature, History of Religion, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Religion—History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval