Excerpt from Yorkshire Writers, Vol. 1: Richard Rolle of Hampole, an English Father of the Church and His Followers And again, when after centuries of darkness, of struggles between conflicting elements, the new state of things after the Norman Conquest had been sufficiently consolidated to make room for a revival of learning and literature, it is the North that leads. The intellectual and spiritual movement of the 14th century, which centred at Oxford (merton College), and may well be called the Merton College movement, is headed by Northerners. This movement started with the new scholastic system of Duns Scotus, then turned to mysticism under Richard Rolle and Walter Hylton, and ended in Wiclifi'e's religious reform. All these men were Northerners, who studied or taught at Oxford. And the English literature of the first half of the century is almost exclusively confined to the North. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.