Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care

CATE GUNN is an independent scholar who has written on thirteenth-century anchoritic and pastoral literature. CATE GUNN is an independent scholar who has written on thirteenth-century anchoritic and pastoral literature. The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. E.A. JONES is Professor of English Medieval Literature and Culture in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular.

[A]n impressive collection [...] each of these essays profits from and continues the tradition of 'enterprise, ingenuity and spirit of intellectual adventure' that Millett's own research demonstrates.

• Preface: Bella MillettBibliography of Bella Millett's WritingsIntroduction - Derek Pearsall'Vae Soli': Solitaries and Pastoral Care - E.A. JonesScribal Connections in Late Anglo-Saxon England - Elaine TreharneGerald of Wales, the Gemma Ecclesiastica and Pastoral Care - Brian GoldingTime to Read: Pastoral Care, Vernacular Access and the Case of Angier of St Frideswide - Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneLambeth Palace Library MS 487: Some Problems of Early Thirteenth-century Textual Transmission - Ralph HannaPastoral Texts and Traditions: the Anonymous Speculum Iuniorum [c. 1250] - Joe GoeringReading Edmund of Abingdon's Speculum as Pastoral Literature - Cate GunnMiddle English Versions and Audiences of Edmund of Abingdon's Speculum Religiosorum - Nicholas WatsonTerror and Pastoral Care in Handlyng Synne - Bob HasenfratzProphecy, Complaint and Pastoral Care in the Fifteenth Century: Thomas Gascoigne's Liber Veritatum - Mishtooni BosePastoral Concerns in the Middle English Adaptation of Bonaventure's Lignum Vitae - Catherine Innes-ParkerPrayer, Meditation and Women Readers in Late-Medieval England: Teaching and Sharing through Books - C. Annette Grise'Take a Book and Read': Advice for Religious Women - Alexandra Barratt