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Richard Rolle (c.1300 – 1349) was an English religious writer, Bible translator, and hermit. He is referred to as Richard Rolle of Hampole or even first state Hampole, since inside his final years he settled at Hampole, near a Cistercian nunnery, after years of mobile.

He was brought higher touching Pickering, and exposed at a University of Oxford, supported by Thomas de Neville, leaving there at age Xviii or even Nineteen. He experienced his cell foremost at Pickering, then in the Northward Yorkshire parish of Ainderby.

He wrote around two Latin and English; numerous works come attributed to him, however it has been questioned how else many come genuinely from either his hand. A few were printed in the sixteenth century, by Wynkyn de Worde.

He was take to be a saint fallowing his dying; however he was never canonized.

Oremus: Richard Rolle of Hampole
Brief biography.

Richard Rolle de Hampole
Article on his life and writings. Suggests 1300 rather than 1290 as the approximate year of his birth. In the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Richard Rolle of Hamploe
Four-part essay on Rolle, his mysticism, and his imitators. From The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

Rolle of Hampole, Richard
Short biobibliographical article in the Columbia Encyclopedia.

Ghostly Gladness
Biography by Michael Fleming examines Rolle's work in its historical and spiritual context. Also includes a selection of Rolle's lyrics, and a bibliography.

Charles Plouviez: Richard Rolle of Hampole
Brief biography.

Andrew Rubin: Richard Rolle
A brief introduction to Rolle's writing. In pdf. At Brit Lit Interactive.

Richard Rolle Page
Two images, two brief texts in Middle English, and an introduction to the Incendium Amoris.

Bl. Richard Rolle de Hampole
Brief profile.

Rolle de Hampole, Richard
Essay on the life and works of the fourteenth-century English hermit. In the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Some scanner errors.






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