Writing religious women : female spiritual and textual practices in late medieval England / edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead.
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. Employing a historicist methodology, the essays are sited at the intersection of two discursive fields: female spi...
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Table of Contents:
- Part. 1. The influence of anchoritic spirituality upon later lay piety. Ancrene wisse and the Book of hours / Bella Millett
- pt. 2. 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 / Marleen Cre ; 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
- pt. 3. 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 / Christiania Whitehead ; Yate of heven : conceptions of the female body in the religious lyrics / Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou
- pt. 4. Veneration, performance and delusion in The book of Margery Kempe. 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 / Naoe 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.