Doctrine of the Hert

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.

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)

• ForewordIntroduction1. De doctrina cordis2. The structure and content of De doctrina cordis3. Authorship4. Vernacular versions5. The Doctrine of the Hert and fifteenth-century English religiosity6. Themes and images7. The Doctrine of the Hert as a translation8. Middle English manuscript descriptions9. Choice of base manuscript10. Language and dialectBibliographyEditorial ProceduresThe Doctrine of the HertPrologueCapitulum primumCapitulum secundumCapitulum terciumCapitulum quartumCapitulum quintumCapitulum sextumCapitulum septimumTextual CommentaryAbbreviated referencesAdditional prefatory notesPrologueCapitulum primumCapitulum secundumCapitulum terciumCapitulum quartumCapitulum quintumCapitulum sextumCapitulum septimumTextual VariantsIndex to Latin and English Scriptural QuotationsAppendicesA. Transcription of the 'HV' Prologue from De doctrina cordisB. Table of chapter contents from the 1607 edition of De doctrina cordisGlossary of Middle English Terms