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Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead, eds.
Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England.
Published Cardiff: Wales U.P., 2000.
ISBN 0708316417;
ISBN-13: 9780708316412.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Dinefwr Press, Llandybïe.
Size: 138x215x13mm.
Page count: xi,270pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and creases on the covers, a bit of wear at the edges and corners; pages starting to yellow with age; the spine is not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price £17.99]
Weight without packaging: 411g.

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Contents:
Millett, Ancrene Wisse & the book of hours;
Cré, Women in the Charterhouse? Julian of Norwich's Revelations & Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls in British Library, MS Additional 37790;
Selman, Spirituality & sex change — Horologium sapientiae & Speculum devotorum;
McGovern-Mouron, The Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem;
Whitehead, Representation of the Virgin in Château d'amour of Robert Grosseteste;
Boklund-Lagopoulou, Conceptions of the female body in the religious lyrics;
Fanous, Internal emphases in the Book of Margery Kempe;
Yoshikawa, Veneration of virgin martyrs in Kempe’s meditation — influence of Sarum liturgy & hagiography;
Renevey, Margery's performing body — translation of late medieval discursive practices;
Lawes, Psychological disorder & the autobiographical impulse in Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe & Thomas Hoccleve.

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 18pp
Index: yes 

See also | Women’s studies | Religious literature |
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