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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Brepols
2015
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