...Katherine Zieman This essay explores the late medieval rhetoric of self-representation and conceptions of audience through an examination of the writings of the fifteenth-century Carthusian monk Richard Methley. Methley is considered as a “public contemplative” — a writer who offers his own...

... implications of forms and expres- sions of monastic identity also lies at the heart of Katherine Zieman’s con- tribution. Zieman explores the rhetoric of self-­representation and concep- tions of audience in the writings of the fifteenth-­century Carthusian monk Richard Methley. Considering Methley’s...

... Wawrykow, Joseph Jesus in the Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas  13 – 33 Zieman, Katherine Monasticism and the Public Contemplative in Late Medieval England: Richard Methley and His Spiritual Formation  699 – 724 Volume 42 Index  751 ...

... of Richard Methley's writings. According to Bugyis, it is the “Red Ink Annotator” whose annotations “translated” Kempe's Book into one “of perfect contemplation for Carthusians.” 51 That these annotations had a far-reaching impact is further evidenced in the fact that Wynkyn de Worde, the printer who...

...). 47 Katherine Zieman, “Monasticism and the Public Contemplative in Late Medieval England: Richard Methley and His Spiritual Formation,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42, no. 3 (2012): 699–724 (702). ...