Richard Rolle’s Melody of Love: A Study and Translation with Manuscript and Musical Contexts

Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Richard Rolle’s Melody of Love book cover


Andrew Albin (2015–2016 Fellow)

Richard Rolle’s Melody of Love: A Study and Translation with Manuscript and Musical Contexts

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2018

Publication Year:  2018

The Melos amoris stands as the most daring literary achievement of medieval England’s most influential mystic, Richard Rolle. Full of autobiographical glimpses and spiritual rhapsodies, this sustained étude in alliterative, rhythmic Latin prose contains Rolle’s first public account of his profoundly sensory mystical experience. The current volume provides the first full translation of this unstudied masterpiece into English, in alliterative prose that mirrors the original.