Denis Renevey is Professor of Old and Medieval English Literature and Language at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has published widely in the field of vernacular theology and female religious writings. Christiania Whitehead is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at the University of Warwick. Her fields of interest lie in medieval allegory and female spirituality.

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNotes on Editors and ContributorsIntroductionDenis Renevey, University of Lausanne Christiania Whitehead, University of WarwickPart One: De doctrina cordisThe Authorship of the De doctrina cordisNigel Palmer, University of OxfordDe doctrina cordis: Catechesis or Contemplation?Christiania Whitehead, University of WarwickPart Two: The Doctrine of the HertThe Doctrine of the Hert: A Middle English Translation of De doctrina cordisAnne Elizabeth Mouron, University of Oxford; 'Comfortable Wordis' - The Role of the Bible in The Doctrine of the HertAnnie Sutherland, University of OxfordMeat, Metaphor and Mysticism: Cooking the Books in The Doctrine of the HertVincent Gillespie, University of OxfordThe Middle English Doctrine of the Hert and its Manuscript ContextCatherine Innes-Parker, University of Prince Edward Island, United StatesPart Three: European Vernacular TranslationsThe French Translations of De doctrina cordisAnne Elizabeth Mouron, University of OxfordA Middle Dutch Translation of De doctrina cordis: de bouc van der leeringhe van der herten in Vienna, Osterreichischen National Bibliothek, MS 15231Marleen Cre, University of Antwerp, BelguimDe doctrina cordis and fifteenth-century ecclesial reform: Reflections on the context of the German vernacular versions; Karl-Heinz Steinmetz, University of Vienna, AustriaThe Spanish Translation: Del ensenamiento del coracon (Salamanca, 1498)Anthony John Lappin, University of ManchesterBibliographyIndex

These two complementary volumes together fill a major gap in the ever-burgeoning fields of late medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality. Students of medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality will want to own the Companion as well as the edition of 'The Doctrine of the Hert.’