Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection

The Scale of Perfection, widely considered to be one of the great masterpieces of English medieval mystical writing, was authored by an Augustinian friar named Walter Hilton. Hilton lived at the same time as Julian of Norwich and the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing; he was born probably in the 1340s and died in 1396 — compare that to Julian, …