Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature

1. Mindful Spirit
Bonnie Wheeler

2. “SWEET JESUS”
Mary Carruthers

3. Amazons and Ursulines
Elizabeth J. Bryan

4. Misbehaving God: The Case Of The Christ Child In Ms Laud Misc. 108 “Infancy Of Jesus Christ”
Julie Nelson Couch

5. “Als I Lay in a Winteris NYT” and the Second Death
Liam O. Purdon

6. Inscribing Mentalities: Alan of Lille, The De Lisle Psalter Cherub, and Franciscan Meditation
Lawrence M. Clopper

7. The Middle English St. Francis: Text and Context
Cynthia Ho

8. “Wols-Hede And Outhorne”: The Ban, Bare Life, and Power in the Passion Plays
Robert S. Sturges

9. The Failure of Emotion and Reason in the York Cycle
Norma Kroll

10. John Wyclif—All Women’s Friend?
Alastair Minnis

11.
St. Erkenwald: Narrative and Narrative Artistry
Marie Borroff

12. “The Greatest Riddle of the B Text” of Piers Plowman: Why Langland did not Scrap The A Vita

Denise N. Baker

13. Souls That Matter: The Gendering of the Soul in Piers Plowman

Elizabeth Robertson

14. The Necessity Of History: The Example Of Chaucer’s “Clerk’s Tale”
Lee Patterson

15. Host Desecration, Chaucer’s “Prioress’s Tale,” and Prague 1389
Sarah Stanbury

16. “Cast Thy Bread Upon the Waters”: A Paradigm From Ecclesiastes in Gower’s “Apollonius of Tyre”
Monica E. McAlpine

17. Illiterate Memory and Spiritual Experience: Margery Kempe, The Liturgy, and the “Woman in the Crowd”
Arnold Sanders

18. The Family of Origin Versus The Human Family: Universal Love in Literature
Judith Ferster

Keywords: Literature, Medieval Literature, Classical and Antique Literature, Spirituality, History of Medieval Europe