Language, Self and Love
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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.
Denis Renevey is a lecturer in Medieval Literature at the Universities of Fribourg and Neuchâtel. He is the co-editor of Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England and the author of numerous articles dealing with medieval mysticism.
AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1: Hermeneutics and Language of Love in the Twelfth Century
1. Language Theory in the Twelfth Century
2. Hermeneutics and Degrees of Love3. Discovering the Self through Love in the Writings of William of St ThierryPart 2: Self and Tradition: Richard Rolle and the Commentary Tradition of the Song of SongsPrologue
4. From Interpres to Auctor: New Contexts for the Vocabulary of Love5. Love of God and Lovers of the World: Self and Audience in Contra amatores mundi6. Hermeneutics and Degrees of Love in the Epistles
AfterwordNotes BibliographyIndex“Language, Self and Love makes accessible some of the important liturgical and lexio divina aspects of self-shaping in reading and writing, utterance and listening as reflections on motives. It is sure to have a solid impact upon how the medieval mystics are likely to be read as well as a good demonstration of historically informed, nuanced hermeneutical reading.” –www.wordtrade.com/religion/
“There is no doubt that Language, Self and Love is an original contribution to scholarship . . . Renevey has succeeded in treating the work of one of the most impenetrable of medieval authors with coolness and integrity” –Mystics Quarterly
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