Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature

In what varieties of ways is late medieval literature inflected by spiritual insight and desires? What weaves of literary cloth especially suit religious insight? In this collection, several renowned scholars assess those related issues in a range of Medieval texts.

Bonnie Wheeler teaches English and Medieval Studies at Southern Methodist University. She writes about medieval literature and culture, and she is the editor of the journal Arthuriana. Recent books include Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady (Palgrave, 2003); Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman (2000) ; On Arthurian Women: Essay in Memory of Maureen Fries; and The Malory Debate: The Texts of Le Morte Darthur.

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Mindful Spirit

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Bonnie Wheeler

"Sweet Jesus"

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Mary Carruthers

Amazons and Ursulines

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Elizabeth J. Bryan

Misbehaving God: The Case of the Christ Child in MS Laud Misc. 108 "Infancy of Jesus Christ"

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Julie Nelson Couch

"Als I Lay in a Winteris Nyt" and the Second Death

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Liam O. Purdon

Inscribing Mentalities: Alan of Lille, the De Lisle Psalter Cherub, and Franciscan Meditation

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Lawrence M. Clopper

The Middle English St. Francis: Text and Context

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Cynthia Ho

"Wols-hede and outhorne": The Ban, Bare Life, and Power in the Passion Plays

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Robert S. Sturges

The Failure of Emotion and Reason in the York Cycle

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Norma Kroll

John Wyclif—All Women's Friend?

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Alastair Minnis

St. Erkenwald: Narrative and Narrative Artistry

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Marie Borroff

"The Greatest Riddle of the B Text" of Piers Plowman: Why Langland Did Not Scrap the A Vita

149

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Denise N. Baker

Souls that Matter: The Gendering of the Soul in Piers Plowman

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Elizabeth Robertson

The Necessity of History: The Example of Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale"

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Lee Patterson

Host Desecration, Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale," and Prague 1389

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(14)

Sarah Stanbury

"Cast Thy Bread upon the Waters": A Paradigm from Ecclesiastes in Gower's "Apollonius of Tyre"

225

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Monica E. McAlpine

Illiterate Memory and Spiritual Experience: Margery Kempe, the Liturgy, and the "Woman in the Crowd"

237

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Arnold Sanders

The Family of Origin versus the Human Family: Universal Love in Literature

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Judith Ferster

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Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk

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