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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2011
Print publication year:
2011
Online ISBN:
9780511975578
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521853439
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Theology
Collection:
The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Book description

The widespread view that 'mystical' activity in the Middle Ages was a rarefied enterprise of a privileged spiritual elite has led to isolation of the medieval 'mystics' into a separate, narrowly defined category. Taking the opposite view, this book shows how individual mystical experience, such as those recorded by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, is rooted in, nourished and framed by the richly distinctive spiritual contexts of the period. Arranged by sections corresponding to historical developments, it explores the primary vernacular texts, their authors, and the contexts that formed the expression and exploration of mystical experiences in medieval England. This is an excellent, insightful introduction to medieval English mystical texts, their authors, readers and communities. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, the Companion offers an accessible overview for students of literature, history and theology.

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'The reader is left with a clear sense of both the historical development and sheer mass of spiritual writing and thought in medieval England. Seasoned scholars will learn a good deal from this collection, but it will also make an excellent classroom text.'

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Contents

Contents
References
Guide to further reading
Preface
Vincent Gillespie
Leclercq, Jean, Vandenbroucke, François, and Bouyer, Louis, The Spirituality of the Middle Ages (London: Burns and Oates, 1968).
McGinn, Bernard, The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism (London: SCM, 1991–).
McGinn, Bernard, Meyendorff, John, and Leclercq, Jean (eds.), Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986).
Raitt, Jill, McGinn, Bernard, and Meyendorff, John (eds.), Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987).
Charles Andre, Bernard, Le Dieu des Mystiques, 3 vols. (Paris: CERF, 1994–2000)
Charles Andre, Bernard, Theologie mystique (Paris: CERF, 2005).
Evans, C. Stephen, Exploring Kenotic Christology: The Self-emptying of God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Franke, William, On What Cannot be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, 2 vols. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).
Kessler, Michael and Sheppard, Christian (eds.), Mystics: Presence and Aporia (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
Sells, Michael A., Mystical Languages of Unsaying (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
Chapter 1
Introduction
Nicholas Watson
Agamben, Giorgio, Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture, trans. Ronald L. Martinez, Theory and History of Literature 69 (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
Bebbington, David William, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989).
Bourdieu, Pierre, ‘The Scholastic Point of View’, Cultural Anthropology 5 (1990), 380–91.
Bourdieu, Pierre, Outline of A Theory of Practice, trans. Richard Nice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977).
Colledge, Eric (later Edmund Colledge), The Medieval Mystics of England (New York: Scribner's, 1961).
Dreyer, Elizabeth A. and Burrows, Mark S. (eds.), Minding the Spirit: The Study of Christian Spirituality (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
Foucault, Michel, Care of the Self, trans. Robert Hurley (London: Allen Lane, 1986).
Hügel, Friedrich, The Mystical Element of Religion as Studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and Her Friends, 2 vols. (London: Clarke and Dent, 1961).
James, William, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (New York: Modern Library, 1929).
Katz, Stephen (ed.), Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis (London: Sheldon, 1978).
Knowles, David, The English Mystics (London: Burns and Oates, 1927).
Knox, Ronald, Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion, With Special Reference to the XVII and XVIII Centuries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950).
Leclercq, Jean, Vandenbroucke, Françoise, and Bouyer, Louis, The Spirituality of the Middle Ages, trans. the Benedictine of Holme Abbey (Tunbridge Wells: Burns and Oates, 1968).
Peters, Ursula, Religiose Erfahrung als literarisches Faktum: Zur Vorgeschichte und Genese frauenmystischer Texte des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts (Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 1988).
Riehle, Wolfgang, The Middle English Mystics, trans. Bernard Standring (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981).
Rowell, Geoffrey, Stevenson, Kenneth, Williams, Rowan (eds.), Love's Redeeming Work: The Anglican Quest for Holiness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Spiritus: a journal of spirituality.
Vickers, Brian (ed.), Arbeit, Musse, Meditatio: Studies in the Vita activa and Vita contemplativa (Zurich: Verlag der Fachvereine; Stuttgart: Teubner, 1991).
Watson, Nicholas, ‘The Middle English Mystics’, in Wallace, David (ed.), The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 539–65.
Certeau, Michel, The Mystic Fable, trans. Michael B. Smith (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1992).
McGinn, Bernard, The Foundations of Mysticism, vol. 1 of The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism (New York: Crossroad, 1992–), pp. 263–343: Appendix: ‘Theoretical Foundations: The Modern Study of Mysticism’.
Turner, Denys, The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
André, Jean-Marie, L'Otium dans la vie morale et intellectuelle romaine, des origines à l'époque augustéenne (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1966).
Vickers, Brian (ed.), Arbeit, Musse, Meditation: Studies in the Vita activa and Vita contemplativa (Zurich: Verlag der Fachvereine; Stuttgart: Teubner, 1991).
Brown, Peter makes much of the impact of various versions of otium on Augustine's spiritual development in Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
Foucault, Michel, Care of the Self, trans. Robert Hurley (London: Allen Lane, 1986).
Bourdieu, Pierre, ‘The Scholastic Point of View’, Cultural Anthropology 5 (1990), 380–91.
Doyle, A. I., ‘A Survey of the Origins and Circulation of Theological Writings in English in the 14th, 15th and Early 16th Centuries with Special Consideration of the part of the Clergy Therein’ (PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1954).
See also, e.g., Griffiths, Jeremy and Pearsall, Derek, Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375–1475 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), especially Vincent Gillespie: ‘Vernacular Books of Religion’, 317–44.
Hanna, Ralph, Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996).
Hartung, Albert E. (ed.), A Manual of Writings in Middle English, 1050–1500 (New Haven, CN: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967–): Robert Raymo, ‘Works of Religious and Philosophical Instruction’ (vol. 7, 1986), chs. 20 and 23.
Lagorio, Valerie and Sargent, Michael G., ‘English Mystical Writings’ (vol. 9, 1993).
Howells, Edward, John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila: Mystical Knowing and Selfhood (New York: Crossroad, 2002).
Jesus Maria, Fray José, L'apologie mystique de Quiroga: Saint Jean de la Croix et la mystique chrétienne, trans. Jean Krynen (Toulouse: France‑Iberie Recherche, 1990).
Hügel, Friedrich, The Mystical Element of Religion as Studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and Her Friends, 2 vols. (London: Clarke and Dent, 1961).
James, William, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (New York: Modern Library, 1929).
Underhill, Evelyn, Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (New York: Dutton, 1961).
Thomas Merton's Paradise Journey: Writings On Contemplation, ed. Shannon, William H. (Tunbridge Wells: Burns and Oates, 2000).
Suzuki, D. T., Mysticism, Christian and Buddhist (London: Routledge, 2002).
See also Sharf, Robert, ‘The Zen of Japanese Nationalism’, History of Religions 33 (1993), 1–43.
Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture c. 1150–1300: Virginity and Its Authorizations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001).
Salih, Sarah, Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001).
Chapter 2
c. 1080–1215: culture and history
Brian Patrick McGuire
Haskins, Charles Homer, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927).
Brooke, Christopher, The Twelfth Century Renaissance (London: Thames and Hudson, 1969).
Benson, Robert L. and Constable, Giles, with Lanham, Carol D. (eds.), Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982).
Southern, Richard, Medieval Humanism and Other Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 1970), p. 140.
Morris, Colin, The Discovery of the Individual, repr. the Medieval Academy of America in 1987, 1991, and 1995 in its series with Toronto University Press, Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching.
Leclercq, Jean, The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture, trans. Catherine Misrashi (New York: Fordham University Press, 1961).
See McGuire, Brian, ‘Love of Learning: Remembering Jean Leclercq’, The American Benedictine Review 57 (2006).
Knowles, David, The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the times of Saint Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940–1216, 2nd edn (Cambridge, 1963).
More recent is Burton, Janet, Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain 1000–1300 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Thompson, Sally, Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries after the Norman Conquest (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).
For the contribution of women to the spiritual life of the twelfth century in England Talbot, C. H.'s edition of The Life of Christina of Markyate is central (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987), now revised by Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
See also Fanous, Samuel and Leyser, Henrietta (ed.), Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-century Holy Woman (London and New York: Routledge, 2005).
Southern, R. W.: Saint Anselm and his Biographer: A Study of Monastic Life and Thought 1059–c. 1130 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966) and Saint Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Matarasso, Pauline (trans.), The Cistercian World (London, 1993).
McGuire, Brian Patrick, Brother and Lover: Aelred of Rievaulx (New York: Crossroad, 1994).
The Life of Ailred of Rievaulx by Daniel, Walter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978).
Zinn, Grover A. (trans.), Richard of Saint Victor, The Mystical Ark (New York: Paulist, 1979).
Gardiner, Eileen (ed.), Visions of Heaven and Hell before Dante (New York: Italica Press, 1989).
Leclercq, Jean, and Bonnes, Jean-Paul, Un maître de la vie spirituelle au onzième siècle: Jean de Fécamp. Etudes de théologie et d'histoire de la spiritualité 9 (Paris: Vrin, 1946).
Chapter 3
c. 1080–1215: texts
Henrietta Leyser
Bartlett, Robert, England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075–1225 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Cannon, Christopher, The Grounds of English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Chenu, M. D., La théologie au douzième siècle, in English as Taylor, Jerome and Little, Lester K. (eds. and trans.), Nature, Man and Society in the Twelfth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968).
McGinn, Bernard, A History of Christian Mysticism, vol. 2 (London: SCM, 1995).
Leclercq, Jean, The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture, trans. Catherine Misrashi (NY: Fordham University Press, 1961).
Squire, Aelred, Aelred of Rievaulx: a Study (London: SPCK, 1969).
Astell, Ann W., The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990).
Boenig, Robert and Pollard, William F. (eds.), Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997).
Fulton, Rachel, From Judgement to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary 800–1200 (NY: Columbia University Press, 2002).
Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture: Virginity and its Authorisations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Robertson, Elizabeth, Early English Devotional Prose and the Female Audience (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1990).
Hollis, Stephanie (ed.) with Barnes, W. R., Writing the Wilton Women: Goscelin's Legend of Edith and Liber confortatorius (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004).
Holdsworth, C. J., ‘John of Ford and English Cistercian Writing, 1167–1214’, TRHS 5th ser. 2 (1961): 17–136.
Costello, H. and Holdsworth, C. (eds.), A Gathering of Friends: The Learning and Spirituality of John of Forde (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1996).
Flint, Valerie, ‘The Commentaries of Honorius Augustodunensis on the Song of Songs’, Revue Bénédictine 84 (1974), 196–211.
Astell, Ann W., The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1990).
Matter, E. Ann, The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity (Philadelphia, PN: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).
Fanous, Samuel and Leyser, Henrietta (eds.), The Life of Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-Century Holy Woman (London: Routledge, 2005).
Chapter 4
1215–1349: culture and history
Alastair Minnis
Sayers, Jane, Innocent III: Leader of Europe, 1198–1216 (London and New York: Longman, 1994).
Powell, James M., Innocent III: Vicar of Christ or Lord of the World, 2nd edn (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1994).
Gibbs, Marion and Lang, Jane, Bishops and Reform 1215–1272, with special reference to the Lateran Council of 1215 (London: Oxford University Press, 1934), p. 113.
Pantin, W. A., The English Church in the Fourteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955), pp. 189–243.
Hinnebusch, William A., The History of the Dominican Order, vol. I: Origins and Growth to 1500 (Staten Island, NY: Alba House, 1966), pp. 93–5, 220–2, 312–17, 331.
Moorman, John R. H., A History of the Franciscan Order from its Origins to the Year 1517 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), pp. 123–39.
Roth, Francis X., The English Austin Friars, 1249–1538, vol. I: History (New York: Augustinian Historical Institute, 1966), pp. 13–64.
Coppack, Glyn and Aston, Mick, Christ's Poor Men: The Carthusians in Britain (Stroud: Tempus, 2002).
Copsey, Richard, ‘The Carmelites in England 1242–1540: Surviving Writings’, Carmelus 43 (1996), 175–224.
Flood, Bruce P., Jr., ‘The Carmelite Friars in Medieval English Universities and Society, 1299–1430’, Recherches de Théologie ancienne et médiévale 55 (1988), 154–83.
Catto, J. I. (ed.), History of the University of Oxford, vol. I, The Early Schools (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).
Brundage, James A., ‘The Cambridge Faculty of Canon Law and the Ecclesiastical Courts of Ely’, in Zutshi, Patrick (ed.), Medieval Cambridge: Essays on the Pre-Reformation University (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993), pp. 21–45.
Roest, Bert, A History of Franciscan Education (c. 1210–1517) (Leiden: Brill, 2000), pp. 1–117.
Chenu, M.-D., La théologie comme science au XIIIe siècle, 3rd edn, Bibliothèque thomiste, 33 (Paris: J. Vrin, 1957).
Köpf, Ulrich, Die Anfänge der theologischen Wissenschaftstheorie im 13. Jahrhundert, Beiträge zur historischen Theologie, 49 (Tubingen: Mohr, 1974).
Gilson, Etienne, The Mystical Theology of Saint Bernard, trans. A. H. C. Downes (London: Sheed and Ward, 1940).
Charland, Th.-M., Artes praedicandi: Contribution à l'histoire de la rhétorique au moyen âge (Paris: J. Vrin, 1936).
Minnis, Alastair, ‘Reclaiming the Pardoners’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33 (2003), 311–34.
Minnis, Alastair, ‘Purchasing Pardon: Material and Spiritual Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage’, in Besserman, Lawrence (ed.), Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 63–82.
McEvoy, James, Mystical Theology: The Glosses by Thomas Gallus and the Commentary of Robert Grosseteste on De Mystica Theologia: Edition, Translation and Introduction, Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations 3 (Paris: Peeters, 2003).
Long, R. James and O'Carroll, Maura, The Life and Works of Richard Fishacre OP: Prolegomena to the Edition of his Commentary on the Sentences (Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1999).
Dolnikowski, Edith, Thomas Bradwardine: A View of Time and a Vision of Eternity in Fourteenth-Century Thought (Leiden: Brill, 1995).
Oberman, H. A., Archbishop Thomas Bradwardine: A Fourteenth-Century Augustinian (Utrecht: Kemink and Zoon, 1957).
Smalley, Beryl, English Friars and Antiquity in the Early Fourteenth Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 1960).
Donaghey, Brian, ‘Nicholas Trevet's Use of King Alfred's Translation of Boethius, and the Dating of his Commentary’, in Minnis, Alastair (ed.), The Medieval Boethius: Studies in the Vernacular translations of De Consolatione Philosophiae (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987), pp. 1–31.
Chapter 5
1215–1349: texts
Denis Renevey
Millett, Bella: ‘Ancrene Wisse and the Book of Hours’, in Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead (eds.), Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), pp. 21–40.
Millett, Bella, ‘The Origins of Ancrene Wisse: New Answers, New Questions’, Medium Ævum 61 (1992), 206–28.
Gunn, Cate, Ancrene Wisse: From Pastoral Literature to Vernacular Spirituality, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008).
Millett, Bella, ‘Ancrene Wisse and the Conditions of Confession’, English Studies 80 (1999), 193–215.
Gunn, Cate, ‘Beyond the Tomb: Ancrene Wisse and Lay Piety’, in McAvoy, Liz Herbert and Hughes-Edwards, Mari (eds.), Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005), pp. 161–71.
Hasenfratz, Robert, ‘“Efter hire euene”: Lay Audiences and the Variable Asceticism of Ancrene Wisse’, Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs, pp. 145–60.
Wada, Yoko, ‘What is Ancrene Wisse’, in Wada, Yoko (ed.), A Companion to Ancrene Wisse (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2003), pp. 1–28.
Millett, Bella, ‘The Genre of Ancrene Wisse’, pp. 29–44.
Millett, Bella, ‘Ancrene Wisse and the Book of Hours’, in Renevey, Denis and Whitehead, Christiania (eds.), Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), pp. 21–40.
Warren, Ann K., Anchorites and their Patrons in Medieval England (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1985).
Cannon, Christopher, ‘Enclosure’, in Dinshaw, Carolyn and Wallace, David (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 109–23.
Cannon, Christopher, ‘The Form of the Self: Ancrene Wisse and Romance’, Medium Ævum 70 (2001), 47–65.
Cannon, Christopher, The Grounds of English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 139–71.
Renevey, Denis, ‘Early Middle English Writings for Women: Ancrene Wisse’, Johnson, David F. and Treharne, Elaine M. (eds.), Readings in Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 198–212.
Batt, Catherine, Renevey, Denis, and Whitehead, Christiania, ‘Domesticity and Medieval Devotional Literature’, Leeds Studies in English 36 (2005), 195–250.
Dance, Richard, ‘The AB Language: the Recluse, the Gossip and the Language Historian’, in A Companion to Ancrene Wisse, pp. 57–82.
Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, Saint's Lives and Women's Literary Culture c. 1150–1300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Ellis, Roger (ed.), The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Vol. I, To 1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). See also Vincent Gillespie, ‘Vernacular Theology’, in Paul Strohm (ed.), Middle English Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 401–20.
Bernau, Anke, Evans, Ruth, and Salih, Sarah (eds.), Medieval Virginities (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003).
Salih, Sarah, Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001), pp. 46–50.
Bynum, Caroline Walker, Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982).
Bynum, Caroline Walker, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987).
Newman, Barbara, From Virile Woman to Woman Christ (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997).
Renevey, Denis, ‘Enclosed Desires: A Study of the Wooing Group’, in Pollard, W. F. and Boenig, R., Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 39–62.
Chewning, Susannah Mary, ‘Mysticism and the Anchoritic Community: “A Time…of Veiled Infinity”’, in Watt, Diane (ed.), Medieval Women and their Communities (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997), pp. 116–37.
Chewning, Susannah Mary, ‘Gladly Alone, Gladly Silent: Isolation and Exile in the Anchoritic Mystical Experience’, in Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs, pp. 103–15.
Chewning, Susannah Mary, (ed.), The Milieu and Context of the Wohunge Group (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, forthcoming).
Renevey, Denis, ‘The Choices of the Compiler: Vernacular Hermeneutics in A Talkyng of þe Loue of God’, in Ellis, R., Tixier, R., and Weitemeier, B. (eds.), The Medieval Translator VI (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 232–53.
Gunn, Cate, ‘Beyond the Tomb’, pp. 165–7.
Watson, Nicholas, ‘Ancrene Wisse, Religious Reform and the Late Middle Ages’, in Wada, Yoko (ed.), A Companion to ‘Ancrene Wisse’ (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 197–26.
Innes-Parker, Catherine, ‘The Legacy of Ancrene Wisse: Translations, Adaptations, Influences and Audience, with Special Attention to Women Readers’, in Wada (ed.) A Companion, pp. 145–73.
Watson, Nicholas, Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Renevey, Denis, Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolle and the Commentaries on the Song of Songs (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001).
McIlroy, Claire Elizabeth, The English Prose Treatises of Richard Rolle (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004).
Hanna, Ralph (ed.), Richard Rolle: Uncollected Prose and Verse with Related Northern Texts, EETS OS 329 (2007).
Chapter 6
1349–1412: culture and history
Jeremy Catto
Epistolario di Santa Caterina da Siena, ed. Theseider, E. Dupré (Rome, Fonti per la Storia d'Italia, 1940).
Hodgson, Phyllis, The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counselling, EETS OS 218 (1944; repr. 1981).
Barnum, P. H. (ed.), Dives and Pauper, 3 vols. EETS OS 275, 280, 323 (1976–2004).
Clark, J. P. H. and Taylor, Cheryl (eds.), Walter Hilton's Latin Writings, 2 vols., Analecta Cartusiana 104 (Salzburg 1987).
Ogilvie-Thomson, C. J. (ed.), Walter Hilton's Mixed Life (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1986).
Arnould, E. J. F. (ed.), Henry Duke of Lancaster, Livre de seyntz médicines (Oxford, Anglo-Norman Texts, 1940).
Colledge, Edmund and Walsh, James, Showing to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich, 2 vols. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1978).
Clark, J. P. H. (ed.), Nubes Ignorandi, Analecta Cartusiana 119 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1989).
Sanders, L. F. (ed.), Omne Bonum, 2 vols. (London: Harvey Miller, 1996).
Morris, R. (ed.), The Pricke of Conscience (London: Philological Society, 1863).
O'Brien, R. (ed.), William Rymington, Meditationes sive Stimulus Peccatoris, Cîteaux 16 (1965), 278–304.
Matthew, F. D. (ed.), The English Works of Wyclif hitherto Unprinted, EETS OS 74 (1880).
Hope Emily, Allen, Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle Hermit of Hampole (New York: MLA and London: Oxford University Press, 1927).
Farmer, D. H., ‘The Meditations of the Monk of Farne’, Analecta Monastica 4 (1956), 141–245; D. H. Farmer, ‘The Meditatio devota of Uthred of Boldon’, Analecta Monastica 5 (1958), 187–206.
Sargent, M. G., ‘Transmission by the English Carthusians of some late medieval spiritual writings’, JEH 27 (1977), 225–40.
Sargent, M. G., ‘Contemporary criticism of Richard Rolle’, Analecta Cartusiana 55 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1981), 160–205.
Doyle, A. I., ‘Carthusian participation in the movement of works of Richard Rolle between England and other parts of Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries’, Analecta Cartusiana 55 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1982), 109–20.
Doyle, A. I., ‘Publication by members of the religious orders’, in Griffiths, Jeremy and Pearsall, Derek, Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375–1475 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 109–23.
Gillespie, Vincent, ‘The Cibus Anime Book 3: a guide for contemplatives?’, Analecta Cartusiana 35 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1983), 90–119.
Ogura, S., Beadle, R. and Sargent, M. G., Nicholas Love at Waseda (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997); M. G. Sargent (ed.), Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2005).
Boyle, L. E., ‘The Oculus Sacerdotis of William of Pagula’, TRHS 5th ser. 5 (1955), 81–110.
Gillespie, Vincent, ‘The Evolution of the Speculum Christiani’, in Minnis, A. J. (ed.), Latin and Vernacular: Studies in Late Mediaeval Texts and Manuscripts, in (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1989), 39–62.
Everitt, Charles, ‘Eloquence as Profession and Art’, (D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford), 1985.
Heale, Nicholas, ‘Religious and intellectual interests at St Edmund's Abbey at Bury and the nature of English Benedictinism, c.1350–1450’ (D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1994) esp. pp. 190–211.
Chapter 7
1349–1412: texts
Roger Ellis and Samuel Fanous
Glasscoe, Marion, English Medieval Mystics: Games of Faith (London: Longman, 1993).
Watson, Nicholas, ‘The Middle English Mystics’, in Wallace, David (ed.), The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 539–65.
Phillips, Helen (ed.), Langland, the Mystics and the Medieval English Religious Tradition (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990).
Pollard, William F. and Boenig, Robert (eds.), Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997).
Edwards, A. S. G. (ed.), A Companion to Middle English Prose (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000).
Dyas, Dee, Edden, Valerie, and Ellis, Roger (eds.), Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005).
College, Edmund (ed.), The Medieval Mystics of England (London: Murray, 1962).
Riehle, Wolfgang, The Middle English Mystics, trans. Bernard Standring (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971).
Turner, Denys, The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Hudson, Anne, The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988).
Pelphrey, Brant, Love Was His Meaning: The Theology and Mysticism of Julian of Norwich (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1982).
McEntire, Sandra J. (ed.), Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays (New York, 1998).
McAvoy, Liz Herbert (ed.), A Companion to Julian of Norwich (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2008).
Turner, , Darkness of God, pp. 186–210.
Sutherland, Annie, ‘The Dating and Authorship of the Cloud Corpus: A Reassessment of the Evidence’, Medium Ævum 71 (2002), 82–100.
Milosh, Joseph E., ‘The Scale of Perfection’ and the English Mystical Tradition (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1966).
Minnis, A. J., ‘Affection and Imagination in The Cloud of Unknowing and Hilton's Scale of Perfection’, Traditio 39 (1983), 326–66.
Windeatt, Barry (ed.), English Mystics of the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Brown, Peter (ed.), A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c. 1350–c. 1500 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007).
Simpson, James, Reform and Cultural Revolution, The Oxford English Literary History Vol. II 1350–1547 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Gillespie, Vincent, ‘Religious Writing’, in Ellis, Roger (ed.), The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Vol. I, To 1500, pp. 234–83 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), discusses the broad sweep of religious texts translated into or from English in the medieval period.
Sargent, Michael G. (ed.), De Cella in Seculum: Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1988), which provides a good collection of essays on the increasingly permeable interface between lay, clerical and monastic lives.
Duncan, Thomas G. (ed.), A Companion to the Middle English Lyric (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005).
Woolf, Rosemary, The English Religious Lyric in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968).
Gray, Douglas, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972).
Chapter 8
1412–1534: culture and history
Vincent Gillespie
Allmand, C. T., Henry V, new edn (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
Haigh, Christopher, English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).
Bernard, G. W., The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005).
Engen, John, ‘Multiple Options: The World of the Fifteenth-Century Church’, Church History, 77 (2008), 257–84.
Duffy, Eamon, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400–1580 (London: Yale University Press, 1992).
Duffy, Eamon, ‘Religious Belief’, in Horrox, Rosemary and Ormrod, W. M. (eds.), A Social History of England 1200–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 293–339.
Duffy, Eamon, Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240–1570 (London: Yale University Press, 2006).
Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate, Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378–1417 (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006).
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).
Simpson, James, Reform and Cultural Revolution: The Oxford English Literary History, vol. II: 1350–1547 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 34–67.
Nolan, Maura, John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Meyer-Lee, Robert John, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Gayk, Shannon, ‘Images of Pity: The Regulatory Aesthetics of John Lydgate's Religious Lyrics’, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006), 175–203.
Crowder, C. M. D., Unity, Heresy and Reform, 1378–1460: The Conciliar Response to the Great Schism (London: Edward Arnold, 1977).
Mundy, John Hine and Woody, Kennerly M. (eds.), The Council of Constance. The Unification of the Church, trans. Louise Ropes Loomis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961).
McGuire, Brian Patrick, Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005).
McGuire, Brian Patrick (ed.), A Companion to Jean Gerson (Leiden: Brill, 2006).
Watson, Nicholas, ‘Censorship and Cultural Change in Late-Medieval England: Vernacular Theology, the Oxford Translation Debate, and Arundel's Constitutions of 1409’, Speculum 70 (1995), 822–64.
Gillespie, Vincent, ‘Vernacular Theology’, in Strohm, Paul (ed.), Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 401–20.
‘Religious Change under Henry V’, in Harriss, G. L. (ed.), Henry V: The Practice of Kingship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 97–115.
‘Wyclif and Wycliffism at Oxford 1356–1430’ and ‘Theology after Wycliffism’, both in History of the University of Oxford, vol. II, pp. 175–261 and pp. 263–80.
‘Wyclif and Wycliffism at Oxford 1356–1430’ and ‘The Burden and Conscience of Government in the Fifteenth Century’, TRHS, 6th ser. 17 (2007), 83–99.
Somerset, Fiona, Havens, Jill C., and Pitard, Derrick G. (eds.), Lollards and Their Influence in Late Medieval England (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003).
Lutton, Robert and Salter, Elisabeth (eds.), Pieties in Transition: Religious Practices and Experiences, c.1400–1640 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).
Lutton, Robert, Lollardy and Orthodox Religion in Pre-Reformation England: Reconstructing Piety (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006).
Burgess, Clive and Duffy, Eamon (eds.), The Parish in Late Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2002 Harlaxton Symposium (Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 14, Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2006).
Burgess, Clive and Heale, Martin (eds.), The Late Medieval English College and Its Context (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2008).
Barron, Caroline M., London in the Later Middle Ages: Government and People, 1200–1500 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Barron, Caroline M. and Sutton, Anne F. (eds.), Medieval London Widows, 1300–1500 (London: Hambledon, 1994).
Horrox, Rosemary and Ormrod, W. M. (eds.), A Social History of England, 1200–1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Lindenbaum, Sheila, ‘London Texts and Literate Practice’, in Wallace, David (ed.), The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 284–309.
Davies, Matthew P. and Prescott, Andrew (eds.), London and the Kingdom: Essays in Honour of Caroline M. Barron (Harlaxton Medieval Studies 16, Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2008).
Gaimster, David R. M. and Gilchrist, Roberta (eds.), The Archeology of Reformation 1480–1580: Papers Given at the Archeology of Reformation Conference, February 2001 (Leeds: Maney, 2003).
Gillespie, Vincent and Ghosh, Kantik (eds.), After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming, 2011).
Griffiths, Jeremy and Pearsall, Derek (eds.), Book Production and Publishing in Britain, 1375–1475 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) is still a useful starting point.
Edwards, A. S. G., Gillespie, Vincent, and Hanna, Ralph (eds.), The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths (London: The British Library, 2000).
Connolly, Margaret and Mooney, Linne R. (eds.), Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England (York Medieval Press, Woodbridge: Boydell, 2008).
Brantley, Jessica, Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Luxford, Julian M. (ed.), Studies in Carthusian Monasticism in the Late Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008).
Gillespie, Vincent, ‘Dial M for Mystic: Mystical Texts in the Library of Syon Abbey and the Spirituality of the Syon Brethren’, in MMTE VI, pp. 241–68.
Doyle, A. I., ‘Carthusian Participation in the Movement of Works of Richard Rolle between England and Other Parts of Europe in the 14th and 15th Centuries’.
Hogg, James (ed.), Kartäusermystic und -Mystiker, Analecta Cartusiana 55.2 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1981), 109–20.
Doyle, A. I., ‘Publication by Members of the Religious Orders’, in Griffiths and Pearsall, Book Production, pp. 109–23.
Doyle, A. I., ‘Book Production by the Monastic Orders in England (c. 1375–1530): Assessing the Evidence’, in Brownrigg, Linda L. (ed.), Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence (Los Altos, CA: Anderson-Lovelace, 1990), 1–19.
Hogg, James, ‘The Contribution of the Brigittine Order to Late Medieval English Spirituality’, Kartäusermystic und -Mystiker, Analecta Cartusiana 35.3 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1981), 153–74.
Gillespie, Vincent, ‘“Hid Divinite”: The Spirituality of the English Syon Brethren’, in MMTE VII, pp. 189–206.
Bell, David N., What Nuns Read: Books and Libraries in Medieval English Nunneries (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian, 1995).
Erler, Mary, Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Krug, Rebecca, Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002).
Aungier, George James, The History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery, the Parish of Isleworth, and the Chapelry of Hounslow, Compiled from Public Records, Ancient Manuscripts, Etc (London: J. B. Nichols, 1840).
See also Beckett, Neil, ‘St Bridget, Henry V and Syon Abbey’, in Hogg, James (ed.), Studies in St. Birgitta and the Brigittine Order, Analecta Cartusiana 35.19 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1993), 125–50.
Weiss, Roberto, Humanism in England During the Fifteenth Century (3rd edn; Oxford: Blackwell, 1967).
Clark, James G., A Monastic Renaissance at St. Albans: Thomas Walsingham and His Circle, C. 1350–1440 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 2004).
Cole, Andrew, ‘Heresy and Humanism’ in Strohm, Paul (ed.), Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 421–37.
Wakelin, Daniel, Humanism, Reading, and English Literature, 1430–1530 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Davies, Martin (ed.), Incunabula: Studies in Fifteenth-Century Books Presented to Lotte Hellinga, The British Library Studies in the History of the Book (London: British Library, 1999).
Driver, Martha W., The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England and Its Sources (London: British Library, 2004).
Rex, Richard, The Theology of John Fisher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Bradshaw, Brendan and Duffy, Eamon (eds.), Humanism, Reform and the Reformation: The Career of Bishop John Fisher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Oliver Pickering in Edwards, A. S. G., A Companion to Middle English Prose (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), pp. 249–70.
Winstead, Karen A., ‘Saintly Exemplarity’, in Strohm, Paul (ed.), Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 335–51, with excellent further reading.
Chapter 9
1412–1534: texts
Barry Windeatt
Brantley, Jessica, Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Bryan, Jennifer, Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia, 2008: University of Pennsylvania Press).
Dor, J.et al. (eds.), New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and Their Import (Turnhout, 1998: Brepols).
Elliott, Dyan, Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
Voaden, Rosalynn, God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1999).
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).
Windeatt, Barry, ‘Reading and Re-Reading The Book of Margery Kempe’, in Arnold, John H. and Lewis, Katherine J. (eds.), A Companion to The Book of Margery Kempe (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), pp. 1–16.
Spearing, A. C., ‘The Book of Margery Kempe; or, The Diary of a Nobody’, The Southern Review 38 (2002), 625–35.
Windeatt, Barry, ‘“I use but comownycacyon and good wordys”: Teaching and The Book of Margery Kempe’, in Dyas, Dee, Edden, Valerie, and Ellis, Roger (eds.), Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), pp. 115–28.
Devereux, E. J., ‘Elizabeth Barton and Tudor Censorship’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 49 (1966), 91–106; Richard Rex, ‘The Execution of the Holy Maid of Kent’, Historical Research 64 (1991), 216–220; Diane Watt, ‘The Prophet at Home: Elizabeth Barton and the Influence of Bridget of Sweden and Catherine of Siena’, in Rosalynn Voaden (ed.), Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late Medieval England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 161–76.
Watt, Diane, Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 1–14, 51–80.
Jansen, Sharon L., Dangerous Talk and Strange Behavior: Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms of Henry VIII (Basingstoke: St. Martin's Press, 1996).
Shagan, Ethan H., Popular Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Elliott, Dyan, Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), pp. 264–96.
Sahlin, Claire L., Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2001).
Erler, Mary C., Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Erler, Mary C., ‘Devotional Literature’ in Hellinga, Lotte and Trapp, J. B. (eds.), The Book in Britain, Volume III 1400–1557 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 495–525.
Rice, Nicole R., Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Macdonald, A. A., Ridderbos, H. M. B. and Schluseman, R. M. (eds.), The Broken Body: Passion Devotion in Late-Medieval Culture (Groningen, 1998: Egbert Forsten).
Ross, Ellen, The Grief of God: Images of the Suffering Jesus in Late Medieval England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Stanbury, Sarah, The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
Bartlett, A. C and Bestul, T. H. (eds.), Cultures of Piety: Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation (Ithaca, NY: University of Cornell Press, 1999).
Chapter 10
1534–1550s: culture and history
James P. Carley and Ann M. Hutchison
Fox, Alistair and Guy, John (eds.), Reassessing the Henrician Age. Humanism, Politics and Reform 1500–1550 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986).
Bernard, G. W., The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005).
Marshall, Peter, Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Rex, Richard, Henry VIII and the English Reformation, 2nd edn (Basing-stoke: Palgrave, 2006).
Betteridge, Tom, Literature and Politics in the English Reformation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).
Walker, Greg, Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Elton, G. R., Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972).
Bodenstedt, M. I., The Vita Christi of Ludolphus the Carthusian (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1944).
Sargent, Michael G. (ed.), Nicholas Love. The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ: a full critical edition (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2005).
Costa, Alexandra Da, ‘John Fewterer's Myrrour or Glasse of Christes Passion and Ulrich Pinder's Speculum Passionis Domini Nostri’, Notes and Queries 56:1 (2009), 27–29.
Pollard, W. F. and Boenig, R. (eds.), Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1997).
Hogg, James, ‘Richard Whytford: A Forgotten Spiritual Guide’, Studies in Spirituality 15 (2005), 129–42.
Hutchinson, Ann M., ‘Richard Whitford's The Pype or Tonne, of the Lyfe of Perfection: Pastoral Care or Political Manifesto?’, in Gejrot, Claes, Risberg, Sara and Åkestam, Mia (eds.), Saint Birgitta, Syon Abbey and Vadstena, Papers from a Symposium in Stockholm, 4–6 October 2007 (Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 2010), pp. 89–103.
Tait, M. B. ‘The Brigittine Monastery of Syon (Middlesex) with Special Reference to Its Monastic Usages’ (D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1975), pp. 291–94. This thesis provides an invaluable archive of materials for those interested in Syon and its networks of affiliation and influence.
Carley, James P., The Libraries of King Henry VIII, CBMLC VII (London: British Library, 2000), pp. xxx–xliii.
Woolfson, Jonathan, ‘A “remote and ineffectual Don”? Richard Croke in the Biblioteca Marciana’, Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies 17.2 (2000), 1–11.
Carley, James P., The Libraries of King Henry VIII, CBMLC VII (London: British Library, 2000).
Carley, James P., ‘The Dispersal of the Monastic Libraries and the Salvaging of the Spoils’, in The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland I, ed. Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 265–91.
Carley, James P. with Brett, Caroline (ed. and trans.), John Leland, De uiris illustribus On Famous Men (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2010).
Clark, John (ed.) with introduction by Peter Cunich, Maurice Chauncy, The various versions of the Historia aliquot martyrum anglorum maxime octodeeim Cartusianorum sub rege Henrico Octavo ob fidei confessionem et summa pontificis jura vindicanda interemptorum by Dom Maurice Chauncy, Analecta Cartusiana 86 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2007).
Cross, Claire and Vickers, Noreen, Monks, Friars and Nuns in Sixteenth Century Yorkshire (Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1995).
Hutchison, Ann M., ‘Transplanting the Vineyard: Syon Abbey 1539–1861’, in Liebhart, Wilhelm (ed.), Der Birgittenorden in der frühen Neuzeit Beiträge der internationalen Tagung vom 27. Februar bis 2. März 1997 Altomünster (Frankfurt: Lang, 1998), 79–107.
Loades, David, The Reign of Mary Tudor. Politics, Government and Religion in England 1553–58, 2nd edn (London and New York: Longman, 1991).
Edwards, John and Truman, Ronald (eds.), Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor: the Achievement of Friar Bartolomé Carranza (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005).
Wizeman, William, The Theology and Spirituality of Mary Tudor's Church (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Doran, Susan and Freeman, Thomas S. (eds.), Mary Tudor, Old and New Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Duffy, Eamon. Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
Scholarly opinion is still divided about monastic refoundations under Mary and Cardinal Pole.
In ‘The English Church during the reign of Mary’ in Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor (see above), pp. 33–48 (p. 40)) Loades, David has suggested that Mary ‘seems to have had very little interest in the revival of the monastic opus Dei’.
Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 283. See also pp. 288–89, on the various refoundations.
Wizeman, , Theology and Spirituality of Mary Tudor's Church, pp. 140–41.
Shagan, Ethan, ‘Confronting Compromise: the Schism and Its Legacy in Mid-Tudor England’, in Shagan, Ethan (ed.), Catholics and the ‘Protestant Nation’. Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp. 61–5.
Loades, David, ‘The Personal Religion of Mary I’, in Duffy, Eamon and Loades, David (eds.), The Church of Mary Tudor (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 1–29 (p. 24).
Coppens, Christian, Reading in Exile (Cambridge: LP Publications, 1993), p. 3, and the references cited therein.
Chapter 11
1534–1550s: texts
James Simpson
Gillespie, Vincent, ‘Dial M for Mystic: Mystical Texts in the Library of Syon Abbey and the Spirituality of the Syon Brethren’, in MMTE VI, pp. 241–68.
Hutchison, Ann M., ‘Reflections on Aspects of the Spiritual Impact of St Birgitta, the Revelations and the Bridgettine Order in Late Medieval England’, in MMTE VII, pp. 69–82.
Grisé, C. Annette, ‘Holy Women in Print: Continental Female Mystics and the English Mystical Tradition’, in MMTE VII, pp. 83–96.
Holbrook, Sue Ellen, ‘Margery Kempe and Wynkyn de Worde’, in MMTE IV, pp. 27–46.
Spearritt, Placid, ‘The Survival of Medieval Spirituality Among the Exiled English Black Monks’, in Woodward, Michael (ed.), That Mysterious Man: Essays on Augustine Baker, Analecta Cartusiana, 119.15 (Abergavenny: Three Peaks Press, 2001), pp. 19–41.
Tavard, George H., Holy Writ or Holy Church? (London: Burns and Oates, 1959). Tavard makes the important point that the doctrine of unwritten verities is a late medieval development; see Tavard, Holy Writ or Holy Church?, ch. 3.
Summit, Jennifer, Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380–1589 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Summit, Jennifer, ‘Active and Contemplative Lives’, in Cummings, Brian and Simpson, James (eds.), Cultural Reformations, From Lollardy to the Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 527–53.
Wallace, David, ‘Nuns’, in Cummings and Simpson (eds.), Cultural Reformations, pp. 502–23.
Wallace, David, ‘Periodizing Women: Mary Ward (1585–1645) and the Premodern Canon’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36 (2006).
Wolfe, Heather, ‘Reading Bells and Loose Papers: Reading and Writing Practices of the English Benedictine Nuns of Cambrai’, in Burke, Victoria E. and Gibson, Jonathan (eds.), Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing. Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 135–56.
Althaus, Paul, The Theology of Martin Luther, trans. Robert C. Schultz (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1966; first published 1962), p. 36.

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