Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Ireland and Wales

E.A. JONES is Professor of English Medieval Literature and Culture in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWA is Professor Emerita of Medieval English Literature at Shizuoka University, and Research Fellow at the Center for Medieval English Literary Text Studies, Meiji University, Japan.

• Distant Islands: The Topography of Holiness in the 'Nauigatio Sancti Brendani' - Thomas O'LoughlinRhetoric of the Gift: Inspiration, Pneumatology and Poetic Craft in Medieval Wales - Oliver DaviesMedieval Mysticism: An Example from Wales - Iestyn DanielCistercian and Victorine Approaches to Contemplation: Understandings of Self in 'A Rule of Life for a Recluse' and 'The Twelve Patriarchs'Twelve Patriarchs' - Ruth SmithThe Mantle of Elijah: Carmelite Spirituality in England in the Fourteenth Century - Valerie EddenThe Active and Contemplative Lives in Rolle, the 'Cloud'-Author and Hilton - Denise N BakerName Above Names: The Devotion to the Name of Jesu from Richard Rolle to Walter Hilton's 'Scale of Perfection I' - Denis ReneveyA New Look into the 'Speculum Inclusorum' - E A JonesThe Madness of Margery Kempe - Richard LawesThe Role of the Virgin Mary and the Structure of Meditation in the 'Book of Margery Kempe' - Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa'In the Blessed Vyneyerd of Oure Holy Saueour': Female Religious Readers and Textual Reception in the 'Myroure of Oure Ladye' and 'The Orcherd of Syon''The Orcherd of Syon' - C. Annette GriseAdam Easton's 'Defensorium Sanctae Birgittae' - James HoggDial M for Mystic: Mystical Texts in the Library of Syon Abbey and the Spirituality of the Syon Brethren - Vincent Gillespie

Summaries can only suggest the riches for the student of medieval mysticism and spirituality to be found... a collection which delights and instructs.