Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts

E.A. JONES is Professor of English Medieval Literature and Culture in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.

• Anchorites and Hermits in Historical Context - E A Jones`Wildernesse is Anlich Lif of Ancre Wununge': the Wilderness and Medieval Anchoritic Spirituality - Dee DyasThe Devotional Life of the Laity in the Late Middle Ages - Valerie EddenMedieval Contemplation and Mystical Experience - Santha BhattacharjiRichard Rolle - Denis ReneveyLanguage and its Limits: The Cloud of Unknowing and Pearl - A C Spearing ***Walter Hilton - Thomas Bestul`And thou, to whom this Booke Shall Come': Julian of Norwich and her Audience, Past, Present and Future - Liz Herbert McAvoy`I use but Comownycacyon and Good Wordys': Teaching and The Book Of Margery Kempe - Barry A WindeattTeaching Anchoritic Texts: the Shock of the Old [Appendix: Ch. 14 of The Rule of a Recluse, from MS Bodley 423 - Alexandra BarrattIntroducing the Mystics - R. S. AllenHoly Fictions: Another Approach to the Middle English Mystics - Roger EllisApproaching Medieval Women Mystics in the Twenty-First Century - Ann M. HutchisonContexts for Teaching Julian of Norwich [Appendix: `Stond wel, moder, under rode'] - Marion GlasscoeAppendix: Learning by Doing: Margery Kempe and students today - Catherine Innes-ParkerAppendix: Useful terms for students [with Roger Ellis and Ann M. Hutchison] - Dee DyasAppendix: Useful terms for students [with Dee Dyas and Ann M. Hutchison] - Roger EllisAppendix: Useful terms for students [with Dee Dyas and Roger Ellis] - Ann M. Hutchison

This volume represents a concise, and yet rich and detailed, contribution to the field. It will be particularly helpful for those intending to teach in this area for the first time, but will also provide scholars and more advanced students with food for thought, and with inspiration for their own research.