Table of Contents

Late 14th-century Cambridge theology and the English contemplative tradition, John Clark; reflecting Christ - the role of the flesh in Walter Hilton and Julian of Norwich, Tarjei Park; transformational processes in the work of Julian of Norwich and Mechtild of Magdeburg, Oliver Davies; the apophatic image - the poetics of effacement in Julian of Norwich, Vincent Gillespie and Maggie Ross; the Trinitarian hermeneutic in Julian of Norwich's "Revelation of Love", Nicholas Watson; "who has written this book?" - visionary autobiography in Langland's C Text, Kathryn Kerby Fulton; the mystical theology of the 13th-century mystic, Hadewijch and its literary expression, Saskia Murk jansen; work and work ethics in 15th-century Syon, Ulla Sander Olsen; Syon MS 18 and the medieval English mystical tradition, Veronica Lawrence; Margery Kempe - a Scandinavian influence in medieval England?, Gunnel Cleve; transcendence in death - a Heideggerian approach to via negativa in "The Cloud of Unknowing", Sonya Sikka; author(s), compilers, scribes and Bible texts - did the "Cloud"-author translate the "Twelve Patriarchs", Roger Ellis.

Reviews

Varying approaches and methodologies are imaginatively employed to deal with an array of writers, whose works are in diverse ways germane to the study of mysticism in medieval England... valuable collection.
*YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES*