Medieval Mystical Tradition in England

E.A. JONES is Professor of English Medieval Literature and Culture in the Department of English at the University of Exeter.

A very valuable collection of essays which touches many aspects of late medieval thought and literary practice, a volume from which medievalists from all walks of life will derive considerable pleasure and profit.

• Introduction - E.A. JonesThe Colours of Contemplation: Less Light on Julian of Norwich - Vincent GillespieBehold Not the Cloud of Experience - Maggie RossWalter Hilton on the Gift of Interpretation of Scripture - Michael G. SargentNumeracy and Number in The Book of Margery Kempe - Christine Cooper-RompatoReligious Mystical Mothers: Margery Kempe and Caterina Benincasa - David RussellAuthority and Exemplarity in Henry Suso and Richard Rolle - Steven RozenskiMortifying the Mind: Asceticism, Mysticism and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114 - Sarah MacmillanThe Meditaciones of the Monk of Farne - Christiania WhiteheadEnvisioning Reform: A Revelation Of Purgatory and Anchoritic Compassioun in the Later Middle Ages - Liz Herbert McAvoyWalton's Heavenly Boece and the Devout Translation of Transcendence: O Qui Perpetua Pietised - Ian JohnsonReformist Devotional Reading: The Pore Caitif in British Library, MS Harley 2322 - Nicole R. RiceRichard Whytford, The Golden Epistle, and the Mixed Life Audience - C. Annette Grise