Medicine of Words: Purgative Reading in Richard Rolle’s Meditations on the Passion

This article explores the idea of therapeutic reading during the later Middle Ages in relation to Richard Rolle’s Meditation on the Passion. Focusing on Rolle and his therapeutic conception of reading as a medicine of words, the article begins by noting the great frequency with which medical terms,...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: McCann, D
Formaat: Journal article
Gepubliceerd in: Brepols 2015