Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, Book II
A Critical Edition based on British Library MSS Harley 6573 and 6579
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 December 2017
- ISBN 9780198789093
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages550 pages
- Size 218x145x56 mm
- Weight 982 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 black and white halftones 0
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Short description:
The Scale of Perfection is the major work of Walter Hilton, one of the best known English mystical writers of the late fourteenth century. The text circulated widely in England before becoming a spiritual classic. This is the first authoritative edition of Book II, based on detailed study of all surviving manuscripts and early printed books.
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The Scale of Perfection is the major work of the late fourteenth-century contemplative writer, Walter Hilton, an Augustinian canon, presumed to have studied canon law at Cambridge before renouncing a promising legal career in order to become a recluse. He gave up the solitary religious life to enter the priory of Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire, where he died, some ten years later, in 1396. The Scale was composed in two books, the first written in the 1380s for a woman recluse, who is likewise addressed in Book II; Hilton was still working on the second book at his death. The two books have different textual histories, and have been edited separately. This long-awaited edition of the second book of the Scale has been brought to completion by Michael Sargent after the death of Stanley Hussey, who had worked on this edition for many years. The Scale is a major work of Middle English prose, a guide to the contemplative life moving from the elements of Christian faith to 'the pilgrimage to the Jerusalem of contemplation'. Thus, though there are indications that Hilton knew the work of the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, the second book of the Scale describes the work of contemplation, integrated into the lives of all Christians, whether living in the world or professed religious. Owing to Hilton's reputation and through modern translations and commentaries, the Scale has become a spiritual classic.
This edition of Book II will be the only one to have taken account of all of the surviving medieval and early modern manuscripts. It presents the text of the two most important manuscripts in parallel, with an Introduction, containing full discussion of the Scale's textual history and presentation of the evidence, manuscript descriptions, textual and explanatory notes, and glossary.
Sargent...provides two surviving tables of chapters in the text from two different manuscripts, a full set of explanatory notes, a glossary, and an index of quotations and allusions. The result is not only a useful edition of an important text, but also, given Sargent's extensive reflection on his editorial approach, a significant contribution to editorial theory in Middle English studies.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Plates
Abbreviations
Sigla of the Manuscripts and Early Prints of The Scale of Perfection
Introduction
Description of the Manuscripts and Early Prints of Scale II
Complete or Originally Complete Manuscripts of Scale II in English
Early Printed Editions
Fragment of an Originally Complete Manuscript
Extracts
MS Y of Thomas Fishlake's Latin Scale
The Place of Scale II in Hilton's Literary opus
The Shape of Scale II
Editing Scale II
The Language of MS H7
Editorial conventions
Bibliography
The Text
Notes
Glossary
Index of Biblical Citations
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