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. Denis Renevey is Chair of 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. Anne Mouron is a fellow in English at Greyfriars, University of Oxford. She writes on late medieval devotional literature.

• ForewordIntroduction 1. De doctrina cordis 2. The structure and content of De doctrina cordis 3. Authorship 4. Vernacular versions 5. The Doctrine of the Hert and fifteenth-century English religiosity 6. Themes and images 7. The Doctrine of the Hert as a translation 8. Middle English manuscript descriptions 9. Choice of base manuscript 10. Language and dialectBibliographyEditorial ProceduresThe Doctrine of the Hert Prologue Capitulum primum Capitulum secundum Capitulum tercium Capitulum quartum Capitulum quintum Capitulum sextum Capitulum septimumTextual Commentary Abbreviated references Additional prefatory notes Prologue Capitulum primum Capitulum secundum Capitulum tercium Capitulum quartum Capitulum quintum Capitulum sextum Capitulum septimumTextual VariantsIndex to Latin and English Scriptural QuotationsAppendices A. Transcription of the 'HV' Prologue from De doctrina cordis B. Table of chapter contents from the 1607 edition of De doctrina cordisGlossary of Middle English Terms

The edition is intended to be used alongside A Companion to the Doctrine of the Hert: The Middle English Translation and its Latin and European Contexts, edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead (Exeter, 2010). These volumes represent a very significant and welcome contribution to medieval scholarship and will undoubtedly influence much future work on vernacular religious writings.' (The Doctrine of the Hert: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary, Medium Ævum, Vol. LXXIX, 2010)