Richard Rolle of Hampole c.1300-49)

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Primary Sources

	Carl Horstmann, ed., Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle, an English Father of the Church, and His Followers, 2 Vols. London: Swann Sonnenschein, 1895-6.
	Richard Rolle, The Amending of Life – A Modern English Version of the "Emendatio Vitæ" of Richard Rolle, of Hampole (Hermit), Rev. H. L. Hubbard, trans. London: John M. Watkins, 1922.
	Richard Rolle, Biblical Commentaries. Salzburg Studies: Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies. Edwin Mellen Press, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0773406336. pp.193.
	Richard Rolle, Emendatio Vitae: Orationes ad Honorem Nominis Ihesu, Nicholas Watson, ed., Toronto Medieval Latin Texts. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1995.
	Richard Rolle, English Psalter: The Psalter of the Psalms of David and Certain Canticles, with a Translation and Exposition in English by Richard Rolle of Hampole, H. R. Bramley, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884.
	Richard Rolle, The English Writings, Rosamund S. Allen, trans. & ed. The Classics of Western Spirituality Series. New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0809130084. pp.232.
	Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love, G.C. Heseltine, trans. London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd, 1935.
	Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love, Clifton Wolters, trans. & ed. London: Penguin, 1982. Pbk. ISBN: 0140442561. pp.192.
	Richard Rolle, The Incendium Amoris of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Margaret Deanesly, ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1915.
	Richard Rolle, Richard Rolle’s Expositio Super Novem Lectiones Mortuorum: An Introduction and Contribution towards a Critical Edition, Malcolm Robert Moyes, ed., 2 Volumes, Salzburg Studies in English Literature – Elizabethan & Renaissance Studies Series, 92: 12. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1988.
	Richard Rolle, Richard Rolle: Prose and Verse from MS. Longleat 29 and related manuscripts, EETS OS 293, S.J. Ogilvie-Thomson, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
	Richard Rolle, The "Tractatus Super Psalmum Vicesimum" of Richard Rolle of Hampole. Texts and Studies in Religion 57. Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0773496661. pp.76.

Secondary Sources

	Hope Emily Allen, Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, and Materials for his Biography, Modern Language Association Monograph Series 3. New York: D. C. Heath and Co., 1927.
	Margaret G. Amassian, ‘The Rolle Material in Bradfer-Lawrence MS 10 and Its Relationship to Other Rolle Manuscripts, Manuscripta, 23:2. (July 1979): 67-78.
	Frances Beer, ‘Richard Rolle and the Yorkshire Nuns’, in Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1992.
	Sr. Mary Teresa Brady, R. D. C., ‘The Seynt and his Boke: Rolle’s Emendatio Vitae and the Pore Caitif’, 14th-Century English Mystics Newsletter, Volume 7, Number 1. Iowa City: University of Iowa, Department of English, 1981.
	J.P.H. Clark, "Richard Rolle: A Theological Re-assessment," Downside Review 101 (343) (1983): 108-139.
	J.P.H. Clark, "Richard Rolle as a Biblical Commentator," Downside Review 104(356) (1986): 165-213.
	Carl Horstmann, ed., Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers. D.S. Brewer, 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0859914925. pp.960.
	Margaret Jenings, "Richard Rolle and the Three Degrees of Love," Downside Review 93.3 (1975): 193-200.
	Margaret Laing, ‘Linguistic Profiles and Textual Criticism: The Translation by Richard Misyn of Rolle’s Incendium Amoris and Emendatio Vitae’, in Angus McIntosh, M.L. Samuels & Margaret Lang, eds., Middle English Dialectology: essays on some principals and problems. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989. Hbk. ISBN: 0080364047.
	Nicholas Watson, Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Hbk. ISBN: 0521390176. pp.372.
	Nicholas Watson, ‘Richard Rolle as Elitist and as Popularist: The Case of Judica Me’, De Cella in Seculum: Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England, Michael Sargent, ed. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1989. Hbk. ISBN: 085991268X. pp.123-43.
	J.P. Whitney, ‘Religious Movements in the Fourteenth Century: Richard Rolle, Wyclif, the Lollards’, in Ward, A. D., & Waller, A. R., (eds.), The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: Volume II, The End of the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907-21.

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