Table of Contents

`The Limits of Bible Study for Medieval Women'. - Alcuin Blamires
`The Absent Penitent: The Cure of Women's Souls and Confessors' Manuals in Thirteenth-Century England'. - Jacqueline Murray
``For hereby I hope to rouse some to piety': Books of Sisters from Convents and Sister-Houses Associated with the Devotio Moderna in the Low Countries'.the Low Countries'. - Wybren Scheepsma
`Passing the Book: Testamentary Transmission of Religious Literature To and By Women in England 1350-1500'. -
`Women and Texts in Languedocian Catharism'. - Rosalynn Voaden
``Cry Out and Write': Mysticism and the Struggle for Authority'. - Judith Forshaw, Book Reviews
`Mechthild von Magdeburg: Her Creativity and her Audience'. - Elizabeth A Andersen
`Catherine of Siena: Rewriting Female Holy Authority'. - F Thomas Luongo
``To My Dearest Sister': Bede and the Educated Woman'. - Benedicta Ward
``Sharpen your mind with the whetstone of books': The Female Recluse as Reader in Goscelin's `Liber Confortatorious', Aelred of Rievalx's `De Institutione Inclusarum' and the `Ancrene Wisse''.Rievalx's `De Institutione Inclusarum' and the `Ancren - Gopa Roy
`Patronage Engendered: How Goscelin Allayed the Concerns of Nuns' Discriminatory Publics'. - Georges Whalen
``Ancrene Wisse and De Wohunge of Ure Lauerd': The Thirteenth- Century Female Reader and the Lover-Knight'. - Catherine Innes-Parker
`Rewriting the Fall: Julian of Norwich and the `Chevalier des Dames''. - Helen Phillips
`Literacy and the Gender Gap in the Late Middle Ages: Women and Reading in Lollard Communities'. - Shannon McSheffrey
`Women and Texts in Languedocian Catharism'. - Peter Biller

About the Author

JANE H.M. TAYLOR is Emeritus Professor of French at Durham University. JACQUELINE MURRAY is University Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Guelph. PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York. Shannon McSheffrey is Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She has written five books and numerous articles and chapters on aspects of English society, culture, and politics between 1400 and 1550. She is currently at work on the Evil May Day anti-immigrant riot in London in 1517.