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The Scale of Perfection (Middle English Texts)
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| #2996729 in Books | 2001-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x7.00 x1.00l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.| Blend of the ascetic and pastoral is top fare|By Elizabeth G Melillo|Walter Hilton's massive undertaking (the first thorough treatment of ascetic theology in the English language) is as rewarding for those today as in his own era - and a careful reading makes one realise that he was treating many of the same difficulties we would find in our own time. This is by no means li|Language Notes|Text: English|About the Author|Walter Hilton (d. 1396) was an English Augustinian mystic. He attended Cambridge University, and at some point, probably before 1386, he rejected the legal and administrative car
Walter Hilton's The Scale of Perfection maintains a secure place among the major religious treatises composed in fourteenth-century England. This guide to the contemplative life, written in two books of more than 40,000 words each, is notable for its careful explorations of its religious themes and also as a monument of Middle English prose. Its popularity is attested by the fact that some forty-two manuscripts containing one or both of the books survive, with a relative...
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