List of Contributors
List of Contributors
a Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is author of Julian of Norwich’s Showings: From Vision to Book and editor of Inscribing the Hundred Years’ War in French and English Cultures and The Showings of Julian of Norwich: A Norton Critical Edition. She has published widely on the Middle English mystics, Gower, Langland and Chaucer.
is Professor in the Department of Humanities, University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has published widely on Middle English women writers, in particular Julian of Norwich and Dame Eleanor Hull, and on anchoritic writing. She is currently working on a study of MS Harley 494, to be published by Brepols as Anne Bulkeley and Her Book: Fashioning Female Piety in Early Tudor England.
is an associated researcher at the Ruusbroechenootschap, University of Antwerpen. She has published on the two fifteenth-century manuscripts containing Julian of Norwich material: Westminster Cathedral Treasury MS 4 and London, British Library, MS Additional 37790 (Amherst). Her monograph on the latter, Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse, was published by Brepols in 2006. She is currently researching a study of Benet of Canfield, Augustine Baker and Gertrude More.
is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. She has published on the medieval mystical writers Hadewijch and Julian of Norwich, and on the late-medieval compilation Book to a Mother. She has also published an edition of Julian’s Revelation of Love (Plymouth, 2008) and her monograph on Julian, The Influence of Late-Medieval Devotional Compilations is forthcoming (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008).
is J. R. R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He publishes on medieval mystical writing (especially Julian of Norwich), the circulation and transmission of religious, devotional and para-mystical texts, and the history of the Carthusians and Birgittines in England. His annotated edition of the registrum of the library of the brethren at Syon Abbey was published in 2002, and a selection of his papers will soon be published by the University of Wales Press as Looking in Holy Books: Essays on Late Medieval Religious Texts.
’s Ph.D. thesis on the rhetoric of Ancrene Wisse has recently been revised as a book entitled Vernacular Spirituality in the Thirteenth Century: The Pastoral Context of Ancrene Wisse (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008). She has published several articles and essays on vernacular spirituality and has taught medieval literature and religion for the Continuing Education departments of Essex and Cambridge Universities and for the WEA.
has recently been awarded an M.Phil. for her thesis on the poetics of Julian of Norwich from the University of Wales, Lampeter. A retired schoolteacher, she has been an active researcher in the area of Julian Studies for many years and has also written and lectured extensively on female mystics, both medieval and modern. She has presented on the links between Julian and Annie Dillard and also has a teaching and research interest in the area of Evelyn Underhill.
is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. He works on the devotional and contemplative literature of the late Middle Ages, and the history and literature of the solitary vocations in medieval England. He is, in succession to Marion Glasscoe, the organiser and editor of the Exeter Symposium on the Medieval Mystical Tradition; volume VII was published in 2004. He has also assumed responsibility for completing the revision of Rotha Clay’s Hermits and Anchorites of England.
is Senior Lecturer in Gender in English Studies and Medieval literature at Swansea University. She has published widely in the area of medieval women’s literature and anchoritism, including Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004). She has also edited a number of volumes, including (with Mari Hughes-Edwards) Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005) and Rhetoric of the Anchorhold (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008) and is currently working on a book focusing on issues of gender, space and enclosure in texts by, for and about anchorites.
is a doctoral candidate in English at Yale University, with an M.Phil in Medieval Studies from Yale and an M.Phil in Medieval English Literature from Cambridge University. She is working on a study of the Annunciation scene in Middle English literature. Her research interests include the Bridgettine Order, texts and scribes at Syon Abbey, mystical texts and translation, and Carthusian spirituality.
is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Auckland. She has published widely on women in medieval Europe, especially in England c.1100–1550. Her research interests include women’s and gender history, youth, life cycle, family, sexuality and the body, and her publications include Medieval Maidens: Young Women and Gender in England, 1270–1540 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), (as editor with Katherine J. Lewis and Noel James Menuge), Young Medieval Women (Stroud: Sutton, 1999), and (as editor with Barry Reay), Sexualities in History: A Reader (New York: Routledge, 2002). She is currently working on a book on representations of the Far East in later medieval travel writing.
is Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Co-founder of the Medieval Feminist Newsletter (now Medieval Feminist Forum) and the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, she has published widely on the topic of women and religion in medieval English literature in collections of essays, and in Speculum and Studies in the Age of Chaucer. She is the author of a book on anchoritic literature, Early English Devotional Prose and the Female Audience and, forthcoming, a book entitled Chaucerian Consent: Women, Religion and Subjection in late Medieval England. She is co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Piers Plowman, the TEAMS edition of Bodley 34, Chaucer’s Religious Tales, and Representing Rape in Medieval English Literature.
is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at King’s College London. Her research interests include gender, subjectivity and sexuality; East Anglian culture; interactions between literature and the visual arts; and medievalisms. She is the author of Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001), co-editor of Gender and Holiness (London: Routledge, 2002) and Medieval Virginities (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003) and editor of A Companion to Middle English Hagiography (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006). She is currently researching a study of paganity in medieval East Anglian writing, and co-editing with Denise Baker a collection of essays on the post-medieval reception of Julian of Norwich.
is a fellow of Somerville College, Oxford and a University lecturer in Old and Middle English. She has published various articles on medieval devotional literature, and is currently working on Middle English translations of the psalms.
is Professor of English at Aberystwyth University. She is the author of Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), Amoral Gower: Language, Sex, and Politics in Confessio Amantis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and Medieval Women’s Writing: Works By and For Women in England, 1100–1500 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007). She has also edited several volumes and has published widely on women’s literature and spirituality in the Middle Ages and on Gower.
is Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He has translated The Book of Margery Kempe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985), edited the original (London: Longman, 2000; reprinted D.S. Brewer, 2004), edited an anthology, English Mystics of the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), and has published a number of articles on Julian of Norwich, on Margery Kempe and on Westminster Cathedral Treasury MS 4. His edition of Julian of Norwich is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.