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Contents List of Illustrations General Editors' Preface List of Contributors Abbreviations Introduction PART 1: ANCHORITISM AND MYSTICISM: SOME CONTEXTS 1. EDDIE JONES Anchorites and Hermits in Historical Context 2. DEE DYAS 'Wildernesse is Anlich Lif of Ancre Wununge': the Wilderness and Medieval Anchoritic Spirituality 3. VALERIE EDDEN The Devotional Life of the Laity in the Late Middle Ages. 4. SANTHA BHATTACHARJI Medieval Contemplation and Mystical Experience PART 2: APPROACHES TO SCHOLARSHIP 5. DENIS RENEVEY Richard Rolle 6. A. C. SPEARING Language and its Limits: The Cloud of Unknowing and Pearl 7. THOMAS H. BESTUL Walter Hilton 8. LIZ HERBERT-MCAVOY 'And thou, to whom this Booke Shall Come': Julian of Norwich and her Audience, Past, Present and Future 9. BARRY WINDEATT 'I Use but Comownycacyon and Good Wordys': Teaching and The Book Of Margery Kempe PART 3: APPROACHES TO TEACHING 10. ALEXANDRA BARRATT Teaching Anchoritic Texts: the Shock of the Old Appendix: Ch. 14 of The Rule of a Recluse, from MS Bodley 423 11. R. S. ALLEN Introducing the Mystics 12. ROGER ELLIS Holy Fictions: Another Approach to the Middle English Mystics 13. ANN M. HUTCHISON Women Mystics 14. MARION GLASSCOE Contexts for Teaching Julian of Norwich Appendix: 'Stond wel, moder, under rode' APPENDIX: TEACHING TOOLS CATHERINE INNES-PARKER Learning by Doing: Margery Kempe and students today DEE DYAS, ROGER ELLIS, ANN HUTCHISON Useful terms for students Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- England -- History and criticism.
Mysticism -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Hermits -- England.
Christian literature, English (Middle) -- Study and teaching.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- England -- Study and teaching.
Mysticism -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Study and teaching.
Hermits -- England -- Study and teaching.