Bøker av Denis Renevey

An account of the literary origins and development of the devotion to the Name of Jesus in late medieval England, exploring the ways in which literary texts bear witness to the Name as a powerful source of contemplation and spiritual development which became central to devotional practice in the period.

Interdisciplinary studies on medieval mystics and their cultural background.

An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.

Explores the development of the language of interiority in the medieval literature. The book discusses the correspondences between the discourse of love in the Song of Songs and the language of mysticism in the writings of William of St Thierry and Richard Rolle.