Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of plates vi
4. Acknowledgment vii
5. Introduction 1
6. I The reader 12
7. Part I Introduction 13
8. 1 The Dominican literacies of Margery Kempe’s pilgrimages 15
9. 2 Mar(ger)y at the foot of the Cross 55
10. II The genre 99
11. Part II Introduction 99
12. 3 The community service of mystics’ maternal bodies 101
13. 4 ‘In Our Lady’s Binds’ 143
14. III The author 185
15. Part III Introduction 185
16. 5 A Mary for every mother 187
17. 6 A Marian, maternal Cecilia 224
18. Conclusion 261
19. Bibliography 267
20. Index 288
21. Plates 293