KATHERINE J. LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield.

This fine study should be commended to students of church history and medieval literature.

• Preface - the life of St Katherine; the cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in late medieval England - an introduction; St Katherine as virgin martyr; reading St Katherine in the parish - the aquisition of knowledge and power; reading St Katherine in the household - education, household managers and the pursuit of the Mixed Life; St Katherine and women.

KATHERINE J. LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield.

This fine study should be commended to students of church history and medieval literature.

• Preface - the life of St Katherine; the cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in late medieval England - an introduction; St Katherine as virgin martyr; reading St Katherine in the parish - the aquisition of knowledge and power; reading St Katherine in the household - education, household managers and the pursuit of the Mixed Life; St Katherine and women.

KATHERINE J. LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield.

This fine study should be commended to students of church history and medieval literature.

• Preface - the life of St Katherine; the cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in late medieval England - an introduction; St Katherine as virgin martyr; reading St Katherine in the parish - the aquisition of knowledge and power; reading St Katherine in the household - education, household managers and the pursuit of the Mixed Life; St Katherine and women.