Dedication

pp v-vi

Contntes

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

Michael Sargent: An Appreciation

pp xv-xxvi

I - Manuscript Transmission and Textual Adaptation

pp 1-2

1 - Beinecke MS 317 and its New Witness to the Latin Door Verses from London Charterhouse: A Story of Carthusian and Birgittine Literary Exchange

pp 3-24

2 - Martyred Masons: The Legend of the Quattuor Coronati in Some Medieval English Contexts

pp 25-47

3 - What Do the Numbers Mean? The Case for Corpus Studies

pp 48-83

4 - Cargo in the Arbor: On the Metaphysics of Books and Scholarly Editions

pp 84-106

II - Translated Texts and Devotional Implications

pp 107-108

5 - Rendering Readers’ Soulscapes: Variant Translation of Interiority in the Late Medieval English Pseudo-Bonaventuran Tradition

pp 109-131

6 - Conservative Affectivity and the Middle English Meditationes de Passione Christi

pp 132-151

7 - Reflecting English Lay Piety in the Mirrors of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS e Museo 35

pp 152-176

III - Rhetorical Strategies and Spiritual Transformations

pp 177-178

8 - ‘Trowes þou, fool, þat þis kake of brede is God?’: Spiritual Bread and Bodily Meat in Middle English Women’s Visionary Texts

pp 179-199

9 - Walter Hilton’s Confessions in De imagine peccati and Epistola de Utilitate et Prerogativis Religionis

pp 200-221

10 - How Canon Lawyers Read the Bible: Hilton’s Scale II and the Wordes of Poule

pp 222-240

IV - Texts and Contours of Religious Life

pp 241-242

11 - Beauty in Liturgy: The Carmelites and the Resurrection

pp 243-258

12 - Otherworldly Visions: Miracles and Prophecy among the English Carthusians, c. 1300–1535

pp 259-289

13 - The Body of the Nun and the Syon Abbey ‘Additions’

pp 290-309

14 - The Early Sixteenth Century at Syon: Richard Whitford and Elizabeth Gibbs

pp 310-326

Bibliography

pp 327-354

List of Contributors

pp 355-358

Michael G. Sargent’s Publications

pp 359-364

Index

pp 365-380

Tabula Gratulatoria

pp 381-382