The Form of Perfect Living

by Richard Rolle, The Perfect Library (Editor)

"The Form of Perfect Living" from Richard Rolle. English religious writer, Bible translator, and hermit (1300-1349).

Genres: Christian Non Fiction

78 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2007

About the author

Richard Rolle (1290/1300 – late September 1349) was an English hermit, mystic, and religious writer. He is also known as Richard Rolle of Hampole or de Hampole, since at the end of his life he lived near a Cistercian nunnery in Hampole, Yorkshire. In the words of Nicholas Watson, scholarly research has shown that "during the fifteenth century he was one of the most widely read of English writers, whose works survive in nearly four hundred English...and at least seventy Continental manuscripts, almost all written between 1390 and 1500."