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McNamer, Sarah
Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion, 01/2011Book Chapter
Around the time the anonymous author in Italy sat down to write the original version of the Meditations, another momentous event took place across the English Channel: Richard Rolle quit his course of study at Oxford and ran off to the woods to become a hermit, wearing a patchwork garment hastily assembled from two of his sister’s dresses. “My brother’s gone mad,” his appalled sister is said to have declared.¹ It was not shame, however, but lasting honor that was to accrue to the family name. Rolle is typically regarded as a key figure in the development of affective piety
