Text name Hilton's Eight Chapters on Perfection File name cmhilton.m34 Manuscript Unable to consult edition Date a1450 (a1396) Dialect East Midlands Genre Religious treatise Edition Kuriyagawa, Fumio. 1967. Walter Hilton's Eight chapters on perfection. Tokyo: Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies. Sample Pp. 1-33 Remarks Not much is known about Walter Hilton. He was an Augustinian canon at Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire and died in 1395/6.
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