Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing

1. Experientia and the Construction of Experience in Medieval Writing: An Introduction
Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Liz Herbert McAvoy

2. The New Devout and Their Women of Authority
Koen Goudriaan

3. Partners in Profession: Inwardness, Experience, and Understanding in Heloise and Abelard
Ineke Spijker

4. Communities of Discourse: Religious Authority and the Role of Holy Women in the Later Middle Ages
Carolyn Muessig

5. Two Women of Experience, Two Men of Letters, and the Book of Life
Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

6. “[A]n Awngel Al Clothyd in White”: Rereading the Book of Life as The Book of Margery Kempe
Liz Herbert McAvoy

7. Die Gheestelicke Melody: A Program for the Spiritual Life in a Middle Dutch Song Cycle
Thom Mertens

8. Handing on Wisdom and Knowledge in Hadewijch of Brabant’s Book of Visions
Veerle Fraeters

9. Afterword
Diane Watt

Nyckelord: Literature, Medieval Literature, Gender Studies, Classical and Antique Literature