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Liturgy --- Christian spirituality --- Iconography --- Kempe, Margery --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Mysticism --- Women --- Littérature de dévotion anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Mysticisme --- Femmes --- History and criticism. --- Religious life --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Vie religieuse --- Histoire --- Kempe, Margery (Burnham), --- Devotional literature. --- 248.153.8 --- 820 "04/14" --- Christian devotional literature --- Devotional theology --- Theology, Devotional --- Christian literature --- Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen) --- Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen --- Kempe, Margery, --- 820 "04/14" Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen --- 248.153.8 Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen) --- Littérature de dévotion anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History and criticism

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Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how they converge within a given culture. This collection of essays explores the ways in which aspects of medieval culture were predicated upon an interaction between medical and religious discourses, particularly those inflected by contemporary gendered ideologies. The essays interrogate this convergence broadly in a number of different ways: textually, conceptually, historically, socially and culturally. They argue for an inextricable relationship between the physical and spiritual in accounts of health, illness and disability, and demonstrate how medical, religious and gender discourses were integrated in medieval culture. Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa is Professor of English in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shizuoka University. Contributors: Louise M. Bishop, Elma Brenner, Joy Hawkins, Roberta Magnani, Takami Matsuda, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Irina Metzler, Denis Renevey, Patricia Skinner, Juliette Vuille, Diane Watt, Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa.

Medicine, Medieval. --- Religion --- Sex role --- History. --- Religious aspects.

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Christian dogmatics --- Christian church history --- anno 500-1499 --- 271.791 --- 271.791 Anachoreten. Stylieten. Kluizenaars. Eremieten. Reclusen --- Anachoreten. Stylieten. Kluizenaars. Eremieten. Reclusen

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The Boke of Gostely Grace is the anonymous Middle English version of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241–1298). The original Liber, compiled at the convent of Helfta in Saxony, presents Mechthild’s visions as she experienced them in the liturgy of the Christian year. Her famous visions of the Sacred Heart follow, along with instructions on the religious life in community and her visions of the afterlife. The Middle English version adapts the text to a new fifteenth-century audience, probably a Birgittine community such as the newly founded Syon Abbey on the Thames near London; it emphasises imagery of the dance of the liturgy, the vineyard and the Sacred Heart in new and vivid terms, while other aspects, such as the bridal imagery, are played down. Within a generation, the English text had become popular among the nobility, and stimulated lay piety and private prayer. While scholars have traced the influence and reception of many continental European women writers, Mechthild’s revelations have often escaped their attention, through the lack of suitable editions. This edition of Bodley 220, the manuscript written in the London area, includes introduction, commentary and glossary, and breaks new ground in the study of late medieval vernacular translation and women’s literary culture.

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