Amy N. Vines is associate professor of English at University of North Carolina Greensboro.Lee Templeton is associate professor of English at North Carolina Wesleyan University.

Over the past fifty years, Denise N. Baker has produced a stream of studies, books, and editions that have had a shaping influence on Middle English scholarship, especially through her transformative work on the fourteenth-century visionary theologian Julian of Norwich. New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature not only makes a fitting tribute to a beloved scholar and teacher; it constitutes a significant contribution to the field in its own right. The essays in this beautifully presented book will be essential reading for anyone interested in late-medieval vernacular theology and its reception, both in England and beyond.

• IntroductionAmy N. VinesList of Denise N. Baker’s PublicationsChapter 1“‘What is Synne?’: Exploring Julian of Norwich’s Question”David AersChapter 2“The Coveting of ‘Muche’ Instead of ‘Measure’: The Connection between Lady Mede and Nede in the C-Text of Piers Plowman”Jessica D. WardChapter 3“The ‘Stalke’ and the ‘Balke’: Cherry Picking the Ethics of Reproof in The Canterbury Tales”Edwin Craun Chapter 4“From ‘Pore Pacient’ to ‘Childische Thyng’: Versions of the Life of Charity in Piers Plowman C.XV-XVII”Grace Hamman Chapter 5“Conceiving Community: Familial Trinitarian Analogies in Augustine, William Langland, and Julian Norwich”Jessica HinesChapter 6“Julian of Norwich and the Cloud Author: How Could They Both be ‘Mystical Theologians’?”Denys Turner Chapter 7“Beatrice of Nazareth and the Desire for Death”Jessica Barr Chapter 8“Julian of Norwich: Lives and Afterlives”Nancy Bradley Warren Chapter 9“‘Heere of myn house perpetuelly a cherche’: Imagining P

Amy N. Vines is associate professor of English at University of North Carolina Greensboro.Lee Templeton is associate professor of English at North Carolina Wesleyan University.

Over the past fifty years, Denise N. Baker has produced a stream of studies, books, and editions that have had a shaping influence on Middle English scholarship, especially through her transformative work on the fourteenth-century visionary theologian Julian of Norwich. New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature not only makes a fitting tribute to a beloved scholar and teacher; it constitutes a significant contribution to the field in its own right. The essays in this beautifully presented book will be essential reading for anyone interested in late-medieval vernacular theology and its reception, both in England and beyond.

• IntroductionAmy N. VinesList of Denise N. Baker’s PublicationsChapter 1“‘What is Synne?’: Exploring Julian of Norwich’s Question”David AersChapter 2“The Coveting of ‘Muche’ Instead of ‘Measure’: The Connection between Lady Mede and Nede in the C-Text of Piers Plowman”Jessica D. WardChapter 3“The ‘Stalke’ and the ‘Balke’: Cherry Picking the Ethics of Reproof in The Canterbury Tales”Edwin Craun Chapter 4“From ‘Pore Pacient’ to ‘Childische Thyng’: Versions of the Life of Charity in Piers Plowman C.XV-XVII”Grace Hamman Chapter 5“Conceiving Community: Familial Trinitarian Analogies in Augustine, William Langland, and Julian Norwich”Jessica HinesChapter 6“Julian of Norwich and the Cloud Author: How Could They Both be ‘Mystical Theologians’?”Denys Turner Chapter 7“Beatrice of Nazareth and the Desire for Death”Jessica Barr Chapter 8“Julian of Norwich: Lives and Afterlives”Nancy Bradley Warren Chapter 9“‘Heere of myn house perpetuelly a cherche’: Imagining P

Amy N. Vines is associate professor of English at University of North Carolina Greensboro.Lee Templeton is associate professor of English at North Carolina Wesleyan University.

Over the past fifty years, Denise N. Baker has produced a stream of studies, books, and editions that have had a shaping influence on Middle English scholarship, especially through her transformative work on the fourteenth-century visionary theologian Julian of Norwich. New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature not only makes a fitting tribute to a beloved scholar and teacher; it constitutes a significant contribution to the field in its own right. The essays in this beautifully presented book will be essential reading for anyone interested in late-medieval vernacular theology and its reception, both in England and beyond.

• IntroductionAmy N. VinesList of Denise N. Baker’s PublicationsChapter 1“‘What is Synne?’: Exploring Julian of Norwich’s Question”David AersChapter 2“The Coveting of ‘Muche’ Instead of ‘Measure’: The Connection between Lady Mede and Nede in the C-Text of Piers Plowman”Jessica D. WardChapter 3“The ‘Stalke’ and the ‘Balke’: Cherry Picking the Ethics of Reproof in The Canterbury Tales”Edwin Craun Chapter 4“From ‘Pore Pacient’ to ‘Childische Thyng’: Versions of the Life of Charity in Piers Plowman C.XV-XVII”Grace Hamman Chapter 5“Conceiving Community: Familial Trinitarian Analogies in Augustine, William Langland, and Julian Norwich”Jessica HinesChapter 6“Julian of Norwich and the Cloud Author: How Could They Both be ‘Mystical Theologians’?”Denys Turner Chapter 7“Beatrice of Nazareth and the Desire for Death”Jessica Barr Chapter 8“Julian of Norwich: Lives and Afterlives”Nancy Bradley Warren Chapter 9“‘Heere of myn house perpetuelly a cherche’: Imagining P