Through a Gloss Clearly
Institute fellows, authors, editors, and books feature in more than usual abundance in the latest issue of Speculum.
The October 2024 issue of the journal is devoted in large measure to works and days of the Yorkshire hermit and mystic Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349). The cluster of essays on the influential religious writer of fourteenth-century England is co-edited by Andrew Albin (Fordham University), sometime Mellon Fellow at the Institute and author of Richard Rolle’s Melody of Love (2018), and by Andrew Kraebel (Trinity University), co-editor of our series British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period and the sole progenitor of an edition and translation of Rolle’s Postille super novem lectiones mortuorum or Glosses on the Nine Lessons of the Dead (forthcoming 2025).
The collection includes essays by the two Andrews and an afterword by Nicholas Watson (Harvard University), who coedited John of Morigny’s Liber florum celestis doctrine or The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching, with Claire Fanger and which we published in 2015. The cluster is fittingly dedicated to Vincent Gillespie, who, among his many accomplishments as author and editor, also gave the 2016 Etienne Gilson Lecture on Birgitta of Sweden and the politics of late medieval English spirituality.
The issue also includes enthusiastic reviews of English Humanism and the Reception of Virgil c. 1400–1550 by Matthew Day (Mellon Fellow, 2020–21) and of Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean, co-edited by Elma Brenner (Mellon Fellow, 2011–12). Our Praeses, Fr Augustine Thompson, is also acknowledged in the opening sentence of another review.