TY - SER AU - Lesley Smith AU - Jane H.M. Taylor CY - Woodbridge, England LA - English N1 - Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993 - articles on medieval women, religion, and print culture. 2 volumes. Contents: Volume 1 The limits of Bible study for medieval women / Alcuin Blamires The absent penitent: the cure of women's souls and confessors' manuals in thirteenth-century England / Jacqueline Murray 'For hereby I hope to rouse some to piety': books of sisters from convents and sister-houses associated with the Devotio moderna in the Low Countries / Wybren Scheepsma Passing the book: testamentary transmission of religious literature to and by women in England 1350--1500 / Anne M. Dutton God's almighty hand: women co-writing the book / Rosalynn Voaden 'Cry out and write': mysticism and the struggle for authority / Grace Jantzen Mechthild von Magdeburg: her creativity and her audience / Elizabeth A. Andersen Catherine of Siena: rewriting female holy authority / Thomas Luongo 'To my dearest sister': Bede and the educated woman / Benedicta Ward 'Sharpen your mind with the whetstone of books': the female recluse as reader in Goscelin's Liber confortatorius, Aelred of Rievaulx's De institutione inclusarum and the Ancrene wisse / Gopa Roy Patronage engendered: how Goscelin allayed the concerns of nuns' discriminatory publics / Georges Whalen Ancrene wisse and þe wohunge of Ure Lauerd: the thirteenty-century female reader and the lover-knight / Catherine Innes-Parker Rewriting the fall: Julian of Norwich and the Chevalier des dames / Helen Phillips Literacy and the gender gap in the late Middle Ages: women and reading in Lollard communities / Shannon McScheffrey Women and texts in Languedocian Catharism / Peter Biller Volume 2 Women, literacy and invisibility in southern Italy, 900-1200 / Patricia Skinner Female readers in Froissart: implied, fictive and other / Philip E. Bennett 'That wommen holde in ful greet reverence' : mothers and daughters reading chivalric romances / Jennifer R. Goodman Pilfering Vegetius? Christine de Pizan's Faits d'armes et de chevalerie / Charity Cannon Willard The consolation of a woman writer: Christine de Pizan's use of Boethius in Lavision-Christine / Benjamin Semple In the voice of women: Chinese love poetry in the Early Middle Eages / Anne Birrell Women, authority and the book in the Middle Ages / Jeanette Beer Francesca da Rimini and Dante's women readers / Mark Balfour The variant passages in The Wife of Bath prologue and the textual transmission of The Canterbury Tales : the 'Great tradition' revisited / Beverly Kennedy Philippe de Rémi's Manekine: Joïe and Pain / Carol J. Harvey Women as readers, women as text in the Roman de la rose / Heather Arden Reclaiming the woman in the book : Marie de France and the Fables / Karen K. Jambeck Lydgate's lyrics and women readers /; Julia Boffey William Caxton, Margaret Beaufort and the Romance of female patronage / Jennifer Summit Apocryphal entries: Judith and the politics of Caxton's Golden Legend / Margarita Stocker NV - 2 PB - D.S. Brewer PP - Woodbridge, England PY - 1995 SN - 9780859914208 EP - 191 pp. TI - Women, the Book and the Godly: ER -