The Cloud of Unknowing - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Bancroft, Anne. “The Cloud of Unknowing.” In The Luminous Vision: Six Medieval Mystics and Their Teachings, pp. 162–86. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982.

Bullett, Gerald. “Comments and Conclusions.” In The English Mystics, pp.14–29. London:ichael Joseph, 1950.

Asserts that The Cloud of Unknowing emphasizes the importance of humility and charity, at the same time warning against self-conscious pietism and sanctimoniousness.

Burrow, J. A. “Fantasy and Language in The Cloud of Unknowing.” Essays in Criticism 27 (1977): 283-98.

Linguistic study of the text.

Ellis, Roger. “Author(s), Compilers, Scribes, and Bible Texts: Did the Cloud-Author Translate the Twelve Patriarchs?” In The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Papers Read at the 5th Exeter Symposium, edited by Marion Glasscoe, pp. 193-221....

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