Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. General Editors’ Preface ix
5. List of Contributors x
6. Abbreviations xi
7. Introduction xiii
8. Part I Anchoritism and Mysticism: Some Contexts
9. 1 Anchorites and Hermits in Historical Context 1
10. 2 ‘Wildernesse is Anlich lif of Ancre Wununge’: The Wilderness and Medieval Anchoritic Spirituality 19
11. 3 The Devotional Life of the Laity in the Late Middle Ages 35
12. 4 Medieval Contemplation and Mystical Experience 51
13. Part II Approaches to Scholarship
14. 5 Richard Rolle 61
15. 6 Language and its Limits: The Cloud of Unknowing and Pearl 75
16. 7 Walter Hilton 87
17. 8 ‘And Thou, to whom This Booke Shall Come’: Julian of Norwich and Her Audience, Past, Present and Future 101
18. 9 ‘I Use but Comownycacyon and Good Wordys’: Teaching and The Book of Margery Kempe 115
19. PART III APPROACHES TO TEACHING
20. 10 Teaching Anchoritic Texts: the Shock of the Old 129
21. 11 Introducing the Mystics 145
22. 12 Holy Fictions: Another Approach to the Middle English Mystics 157
23. 13 Approaching Medieval Women Mystics in the Twenty-First Century 175
24. 14 Contexts for Teaching Julian of Norwich 185
25. Appendix Teaching Tools
26. Learning by Doing: Margery Kempe and students today 201
27. Useful Terms for Students 207
28. Index 211