Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xii

Preface: Tributes to Catherine Innes-Parker

pp xiii-xviii

List of Abbreviations

pp xix-xx

Introduction: Speaking of Past and Present: Giving Voice to Silence

pp 1-18

PART I - The Wooing Group: Silence And Articulation

pp 19-20

1 - Voicing the Creed in On Lofsong of ure Louerde

pp 21-38

2 - Breath Courting Silence in The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd

pp 39-56

3 - Of Loves Both Spoken and Silent: Rābi‘a al-‘Adawiyya and the Wooing Group

pp 57-76

PART II - Devotional Texts and their Intertexts

pp 77-78

4 - Sourcing a Critical Edition of A Talkyng of the Loue of God

pp 79-97

5 - Speaking Beyond the Anchorhold in Richard Rolle's Form of Living

pp 98-114

6 - ‘Speech is silver, silence gold’: Enclosure and Silence in Late Medieval Texts for Religious Women

pp 115-138

7 - Arboreal Articulation: The Testimony of Trees in the Late Medieval Religious Imaginary

pp 139-158

PART III - Hearing and Speaking: Uncovering the Female Reader

pp 159-160

8 - Vernacular Textuality in Thirteenth-Century England: The Ancrene Wisse Group Recontextualized

pp 161-179

9 - Not So Silent After All: Women Intellectuals and Readers in Medieval Oxford

pp 180-204

10 - A Ladder for Sisters

pp 205-222

PART IV - Manuscripts Speaking Across Borders

pp 223-224

11 - Silence, Sources and Medieval Women: From Alien Bride to Spiritual Director

pp 225-241

12 - Anchoritic Interplay between Jan van Ruusbroec's The Spiritual Espousals and its Contributions to The Chastising of God's Children

pp 242-259

13 - Cecily Neville's Devotional Library: Networks of Readers and Models of Female Piety

pp 260-276

Envoi: ‘þis seli stilðe’: Silence and Stillness in the Anchorhold: Lessons for the Modern World?

pp 277-293

Bibliography of the Writings of Catherine Innes-Parker

pp 294-296

Index

pp 297-308

Tabula in Memoriam

pp 309-312