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Queering Richard Rolle

Mystical Theology and the Hermit in Fourteenth-Century England
By:Christopher M. Roman
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9783319497747
eText ISBN:9783319497754
Edition:0
Copyright:2017
Format:Page Fidelity

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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