biography
| name: |
Rolle (of Hampole), Richard
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pronunciation:
[rohl]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1290–1349)
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| biography:
| Hermit, mystic, and poet, born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Oxford, but at 19 became a hermit, first at Dalton and then at Hampole, near Doncaster. He wrote lyrics, meditations, and religious works in Latin and English, and translated and expounded the Psalms in prose. |
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