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Document Details : Title: Richard Methley's Latin Translations Subtitle: The Cloud of Unknowing and Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls Author(s): HOGG, James Journal: Studies in Spirituality Volume: 12 Date: 2002 Pages: 82-104 DOI: 10.2143/SIS.12.0.505292 Abstract : The article examines Richard Methley's translations of The Cloud of Unknowing and Margaret Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls in the context of Methley's spiritual writings as a whole. In neither case could the manuscript utilized for the translation be identified. Methley, a Carthusian of Mount Grace, who according to his own statement never studied at a university, displays a highly competent Latinity and glossed both texts extensively. It seems unlikely that be was not aware that Margaret Porete's work had been condemned as hereticaL A fellow Carthusian, James Grenehalgh, an expert on mystical literature, glossed Methley's translations in turn, which have survived in a single manuscript, copied by the Carthusian William Darker. |
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