Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England.

Church History | June 1, 2002| | Copyright

Edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. xii + 270 pp. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

This is a collection of ten essays, several of which began life as papers given to the Leeds International Medieval Congress, gathered under the heading of English female vernacular theology. The editors have subdivided the contributions into four groups: "The Influence of Anchoritic Spirituality upon Later Lay Piety" (essay: Bella Millett, "Ancrene Wisse and the Books of Hours"); "Carthusian Links with Female Spirituality" ... 


        

            

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