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Table of Contents:

• Ancrene wisse and the Book of hours / Bella Millett
• 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 / Marleen Cré
• Spirituality and sex change : Horologium sapientiae and Speculum devotorum / Rebecca Selman
• 'Listen to me, daughter, listen to a faithful counsel' : the Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem / Ann McGovern-Mouron
• A fortress and a shield : the representation of the Virgin in the Château d'amour of Robert Grosseteste / Christiania Whitehead
• Yate of heven : conceptions of the female body in the religious lyrics / Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou
• Measuring the pilgrim's progress : internal emphases in The book of Margery Kempe / Samuel Fanous
• Veneration of virgin martyrs in Margery Kempe's meditation : influence of the Sarum liturgy and hagiography / Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
• Margery's performing body : the translation of late Medieval discursive religious practices / Denis Renevey
• Psychological disorder and the autobiographical impulse in Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve / Richard Lawes.

Contributors:

Whitehead, Christiania, 1969-

Renevey, Denis

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Christian literature, English (Middle) — History and criticism

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) — History and criticism

Women — Religious life — England — History — To 1500

Women and literature — England — History — To 1500

Spirituality in literature

To 1500

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Women — Religious life

Women

Women and literature

Christian literature, English (Middle)

England

Genres:

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xi, 270 pages ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

PR275.R4 W74 2000

ISBNs:

0802035175 (bound)
0802084036 (pbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

49619121
44545808 [Invalid]