Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker.

Edited by Cate Gunn, Liz Herbert McAvoy and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa

Preface: Tributes to Catherine Innes-Parker by Shannon Murray and Anne Savage
Introduction: Speaking of Past and Present: Giving Voice to Silence - CATE GUNN, LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY and NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWA

PART I: THE WOOING GROUP: SILENCE AND ARTICULATION
Voicing the Creed in On Lofsong of ure Louerde - ANNIE SUTHERLAND
Breath Courting Silence in The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd - DENIS RENEVEY
Of Loves Both Spoken and Silent: R¿bi¿a al-¿Adawiyya and the Wooing Group - AYOUSH LAZIKANI

PART II: DEVOTIONAL TEXTS AND THEIR INTERTEXTS
Sourcing a Critical Edition of A Talkyng of the Loue of God - MARGARET HEALY-VARLEY
Speaking beyond the Anchorhold in Richard Rolle's Form of Living - JENNIFER N. BROWN
'Speech is silver, silence gold': Enclosure and Silence in Late Medieval Texts for Religious Women - ANNE MOURON
Arboreal Articulation: The Testimony of Trees in the Late-Medieval Religious Imaginary - LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY

PART III: HEARING AND SPEAKING: UNCOVERING THE FEMALE READER
Vernacular Textuality in Thirteenth-Century England: The Ancrene Wisse Group Recontextualized - NICHOLAS WATSON
Not So Silent After All: Women Intellectuals and Readers in Medieval Oxford - KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON
A Ladder for Sisters - MICHAEL SARGENT

PART IV: MANUSCRIPTS SPEAKING ACROSS BORDERS
Silence, Sources and Medieval Women: From Alien Bride to Spiritual Director - JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE
Anchoritic Interplay between Jan van Ruusbroec's The Spiritual Espousals and its Contributions to The Chastising of God's Children - MICHELLE M. SAUER
Cecily Neville's Devotional Library: Networks of Readers and Models of Female Piety - NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWA

Envoi: 'Þis seli stilðe': Silence and Stillness in the Anchorhold: Lessons for the Modern World? - CATE GUNN

Bibliography of the Writings of Catherine Innes-Parker
Index
Tabula in Memoriam