Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

General Editors’ Preface

pp ix-ix

List of Contributors

pp x-x

Abbreviations

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp xiii-xvi

PART I - ANCHORITISM AND MYSTICISM: SOME CONTEXTS

pp 1-2

1 - Anchorites and Hermits in Historical Context

pp 3-18

2 - ‘Wildernesse is Anlich Lif of Ancre Wununge’: The Wilderness and Medieval Anchoritic Spirituality

pp 19-34

3 - The Devotional Life of the Laity in the Late Middle Ages

pp 35-50

4 - Medieval Contemplation and Mystical Experience

pp 51-60

PART II - APPROACHES TO SCHOLARSHIP

pp 61-62

5 - Richard Rolle

pp 63-74

6 - Language and its Limits: The Cloud of Unknowing and Pearl

pp 75-86

7 - Walter Hilton

pp 87-100

8 - ‘And thou, to whom this Booke Shall Come’: Julian of Norwich and her Audience, Past, Present and Future

pp 101-114

9 - ‘I Use but Comownycacyon and Good Wordys’: Teaching and The Book of Margery Kempe

pp 115-128

PART III - APPROACHES TO TEACHING

pp 129-130

10 - Teaching Anchoritic Texts: the Shock of the Old Appendix: Ch. 14 of The Rule of a Recluse, from MS Bodley 423

pp 131-144

11 - Introducing the Mystics

pp 145-156

12 - Holy Fictions: Another Approach to the Middle English Mystics

pp 157-174

13 - Approaching Medieval Women Mystics in the Twenty-first Century

pp 175-184

14 - Contexts for Teaching Julian of Norwich

pp 185-200

APPENDIX - TEACHING TOOLS

pp 201-202

Learning by Doing: Margery Kempe and students today

pp 203-206

Useful terms for students

pp 207-210

Index

pp 211-213