This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women from the dis

This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval – and a few early modern – women across Western Europe. Women had a profound

This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends

Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundar

Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker. Silence