Women and the divine in literature before 1700 : essays in memory of Margot Louis / edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton.

SeriesEnglish literary studies monograph series, 0829-7681 ; 101
ELS monograph series ; no. 101. ^A87311
Contents Preface : "Revelation" - for Margot Louis / by Maidie Hilmo -- Introduction : Skepticism, agnosticism and belief : the spectrum of attitudes towards women's vision in Medieval England / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton -- Mother and more for the Middle Ages : Monica as teacher, visionary, philosopher and mystic / Linda Olson -- Revisting Christina's vow of virginity : the influence of developing marriage law on Christina of Markyate's life / Thea Todd -- Truth, sex, and divine poetics in Alan of Lille's De planctu naturae / Julianne Bruneau -- Sealed flesh, book-skin : how to read the female body in the early Middle English Seinte Margarete / Adrienne Williams Boyarin -- Iconic representations of Chaucer's two nuns and their tales from manuscript to print / Maidie Hilmo -- Female initiation rites and women visionaries : mystical marriage in the Middle English translation of The storie of Asneth / Heather Reid -- Male approbation in the sixteenth-century glosses to the Book of Margery Kempe / Johanne Paquette -- "This boke is begonne ... but it is not yett performyd" : compilations of Julian of Norwich's A revelation of love, 1413-1670 / Jonathan Juilfs -- Susanna Elisabeth Prasch, neo-Latin novels, and female characters in Psyche cretica / Jennifer Morrish -- Epilogue : A catena of women / Rosalynn Voaden.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2009675172
ISBN9781550583830 (pbk.)
ISBN1550583832 (pbk.)

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