1 Voicing the Creed in On Lofsong of ure Louerde

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Notes on Contributors ix
6. Preface: Tributes to Catherine Innes-Parker by Shannon Murray and Anne Savage xiii
7. List of Abbreviations xix
8. Introduction 1
9. PART I: THE WOOING GROUP: SILENCE AND ARTICULATION
10. 1 Voicing the Creed in On Lofsong of ure Louerde 21
11. 2 Breath Courting Silence in The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd 39
12. 3 Of Loves Both Spoken and Silent: Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya and the Wooing Group 57
13. PART II: DEVOTIONAL TEXTS AND THEIR INTERTEXTS
14. 4 Sourcing a Critical Edition of A Talkyng of the Loue of God 79
15. 5 Speaking Beyond the Anchorhold in Richard Rolle’s Form of Living 98
16. 6 ‘Speech is silver, silence gold’: Enclosure and Silence in Late Medieval Texts for Religious Women 115
17. 7 Arboreal Articulation: The Testimony of Trees in the Late Medieval Religious Imaginary 139
18. PART III: HEARING AND SPEAKING: UNCOVERING THE FEMALE READER
19. 8 Vernacular Textuality in Thirteenth-Century England: The Ancrene Wisse Group Recontextualized 161
20. 9 Not So Silent After All: Women Intellectuals and Readers in Medieval Oxford 180
21. 10 A Ladder for Sisters 205
22. PART IV: MANUSCRIPTS SPEAKING ACROSS BORDERS
23. 11 Silence, Sources and Medieval Women: From Alien Bride to Spiritual Director 225
24. 12 Anchoritic Interplay between Jan van Ruusbroec’s The Spiritual Espousals and its Contributions to The Chastising of God’s Children 242
25. 13 Cecily Neville’s Devotional Library: Networks of Readers and Models of Female Piety 260
26. Envoi 277
27. Bibliography of the Writings of Catherine Innes-Parker 294
28. Index 297
29. Tabula in Memoriam 309