Writing religious women : female spiritual and textual practices in late medieval England

Folger bibliographic ID: 116001
Folger call number: PR275.R4 W74 2000
Folger holdings ID: 110716

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

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Extended title: Writing religious women : female spiritual and textual practices in late medieval England / edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead

Christian literature, English (Middle) Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) Women Women and literature Spirituality in literature

associated with: Whitehead, Christiania, 1969-
associated with: Renevey, Denis