This collection of commissioned essays explores women?s vernacular theology through a wide range of medieval prose and verse texts, from saints? lives to visionary literature.
Denis Renevey is Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at the Universities of Fribourg and Lausanne. Christiania Whitehead is Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at the University of Warwick.
Acknowledgements
vii
List of Abbreviations
viii
Notes on Editors and Contributors
ix
Introduction
1
(20)
Part One: The Influence of Anchoritic Spirituality upon Later Lay Piety
Ancrene Wisse and the Book of Hours
21
(22)
Bella Millett
Part Two: Carthusian Links with Female Spirituality
Women in the Charterhouse? Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love and Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls in British Library, MS Additional 37790
43
(20)
Marleen Cre
Spirituality and Sex Change: Horologium sapientiae and Speculum devotorum
63
(18)
Rebecca Selman
`Listen to me, daughter, listen to a faithful counsel': The Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem
81
(28)
Anne Mc Govern-Mouron
Part Three: The Representation of Femininity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English Religious Poetry
A Fortress and a Shield: The Representation of the Virgin in the Chateau d'amour of Robert Grosseteste
109
(24)
Christiania Whitehead
Yate of Heven: Conceptions of the Female Body in the Religious Lyrics
133
(24)
Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou
Part Four: Veneration, Performance and Delusion in The Book of Margery Kempe
Measuring the Pilgrim's Progress: Internal Emphases in The Book of Margery Kempe
157
(20)
Samuel Fanous
Veneration of Virgin Martyrs in Margery Kempe's Meditation: Influence of the Sarum Liturgy and Hagiography
177
(20)
Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
Margery's Performing Body: The Translation of Late Medieval Discursive Religious Practices
197
(20)
Denis Renevey
Psychological Disorder and the Autobiographical Impulse in Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve
217
(28)
Richard Lawes
Bibliography
245
(18)
Index
263
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