Denis Renevey, "Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in Richard Rolle and the Commentaries of the Song of Songs"
English | ISBN 10: 0708316964 | 2011 | PDF | 228 pages | 1 MB
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.