Queering Richard Rolle, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Mystical Theology and the Hermit in Fourteenth-Century England The New Middle Ages Series

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction

            Queering the Hermit                                                   

Chapter Two

            Richard Rolle’s Eremitic Ontology                             

Chapter Three

            The Phenomenology of the Open Body                       

            Ecology of Canor: An Aesthetics of Desire                 

Epilogue

Bibliography                                                                           

Index

Complicates the life, writing, and theology of a mysterious but compelling medieval figure

Recasts the vitality of Rolle’s theological concerns and its influence on mystical thought during the period

Provides cross-over appeal for scholars in history, literary studies, cultural studies, sexuality studies, queer theory, queer theology, and gender studies