Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Lists of Diagrams and Figures vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction 1
7. The Colours of Contemplation: Less Light on Julian of Norwich 7
8. Behold Not the Cloud of Experience 29
9. Walter Hilton on the Gift of Interpretation of Scripture 51
10. Numeracy and Number in The Book of Margery Kempe 59
11. Religious Mystical Mothers: Margery Kempe and Caterina Benincasa 75
12. Authority and Exemplarity in Henry Suso and Richard Rolle 93
13. Mortifying the Mind: Asceticism, Mysticism and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114 109
14. The Meditaciones of the Monk of Farne 125
15. Envisioning Reform: A Revelation of Purgatory and Anchoritic Compassioun in the Later Middle Ages 141
16. Walton’s Heavenly Boece and the Devout Translation of Transcendence: O Qui Perpetua Pietised 157
17. Reformist Devotional Reading: The Pore Caitif in British Library, MS Harley 2322 177
18. Richard Whytford, The Golden Epistle, and the Mixed Life Audience 195
19. Afterword: Future Prospects 209
20. Index 211