Prophets abroad : the reception of continental holy women in late-medieval England

Abstract

Hildegarde and the male reader - a study in insular reception, Kathyrn Kerby-Fulton melting into God the English way - deification in the Middle English version of Marguerite Porete's Mirouer des Simples Ames Anientes, Nicholas Watson the company she keeps - Mechthild of Hackeborn in late-medieval devotional compilations, Rosalynn Voaden the visionary and the canon lawyers - papal and other revisions to the Regula Salvatoris of St Bridget of Sweden, Roger Ellis MS Cotton Claudius BI - a Middle English edition of St Bridget of Sweden's Liber Celestis, Joan Isobel Friedman holy women and their confessors, or confessors and their holy women? - Margery Kempe and continental tradition, Janette Dillon esctatic reading and missionary mysticism - The Orcherd of Syon, Denise L. Despres the prophet at home - Elizabeth Marton and the influence of Bridget of Sweden and Catherine of Siena, Diane Watt Auctricitas? - holy women and their Middle English texts, Ian Johnson.