Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anchorites and hermits in historical context / Eddie Jones
"Wildernesse is anlich lif of ancre wununge" : the wilderness and medieval anchoritic spirituality / Dee Dyas
The devotional life of the laity in the late Middle Ages / Valerie Edden
Medieval contemplation and mystical experience / Santha Bhattacharji
Richard Rolle / Denis Renevey
Language and its limits : The cloud of unknowing and Pearl / A.C. Spearling
Walter Hilton / Thomas H. Bestul
"Be thou, to whom this booke shall come" : Julian of Norwich and her audience, past, present and future / Liz Herbert-McAvoy
"I use but comownycacyon and good wordys" : teaching and the book of Margery Kempe / Barry Windeatt
Teaching anchoritic texts : the shock of the old / Alexandra Barratt
Appendix : The rule of a recluse, from MS Bodley 423
Introducing the mystics / R.S. Allen
Holy fictions : another approach to the Middle English mystics / Roger Ellis
Women mystics / Ann M. Hutchison
Contexts for teaching Julian of Norwich / Marion Glasscoe
Appendix : "Stond wel, moder, under rode".
Approaching medieval English anchoritic and mystical texts. ISBN 1843840499. Published by D. S. Brewer in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.