Primary writers:
English:
Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; the'Cloud' author; Richard Rolle
Continental:
(mostly women)
Hildegard of Bingen
Mechthild of Magdeburg and
the other women of Helfta
Beatrijs of Nazareth
Johannes Tauler
Henry de Suso
St. Bridget of Sweden
Catherine of Siena
Margeret d'Oingt
Marguerite de Porete
2.Background and Surveys
a. Anthologies and general
studies
*Medieval Women's Visionary
Literature ed. E.A. Petroff. (OUP, 1986)
*Medieval Women Writers
ed. K.M. Wilson. (Manchester, 1984).
*D. Baker ed. Medieval Women.
(Oxford, 1978)
B. Bolton et al. Women in
Medieval
Society (Philadelphia, 1976)
W. Riehle: The Middle English
Mystics (London, 1981)
*P. Dronke: Women Writers of
the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1984)
C. Erickson and K. Casey: 'Women
in the Middle Ages: A Working Bibliography' Medieval Studies 37
(1975).
R. Bridenthal and C. Koonz: Becoming
Visible: Women in European History. (Boston, 1977)
C. Bynum: Holy Fast and Holy
Feast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, (Univ.
of California Press, 1987)
C. Bynum: Fragmentation and
Redemption, (New York: Zone Books) 1991.
M. Erler and M. Kowaleski: Women
and Power in the Middle Ages, (Georgia UP 1988)
S. Beckwith, Christ's Body:
identity, culture and society in late medieval writings. Routledge,
1993.
Carol Meale, (ed). Women and
Literature in Britain 1150-1500, (Cambridge, 1993) especially
Felicity
Riddy's chapter.
3. Studies of Individual
Works
a. Margery Kempe
D.Aers: Community,
Gender
and Individual Identity: English Writing 1360-1430. (London, 1988)
Ch. 2
chapter in S. Delany: Writing
Woman (New York, 1983) Repr. from Minnesota Review 5
(1975):
"Sexual Economics, Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Margery Kempe."
*S. Beckwith: "A Very Material
Mysticism: The Medieval Mysticism of Margery Kempe." in D. Aers ed. Medieval
Literature, Criticism, Ideology and History (Brighton, 1986)
A. Goodman: "The Piety of John
Brunham's Daughter of Lynn." in D. Baker ed. Medieval Women.
(Oxford,
1978)
C. Atkinson: Mystic and
Pilgrim:
The Book and the World of Margery Kempe. (Ithaca, New York, 1983)
K. Lochrie: Margery Kempe and
Translations of the flesh, (Philadelphia: UPP Press) 1991.
Sandra McEntire, Margery
Kempe:
A Book of Essays, New York, London: Garland (1992)
b. Julian of Norwich
D. Knowles: The English
Mystical
Tradition, (London, 1961)
R.K. Stone: Middle English
Prose
Style: Margery Kemp and Julian of Norwich, (The Hague, 1970)
R.M. Wilson:'Three Middle English
Mystics' E&S 9 (1956) 87-112.
B.A. Windeatt: "Julian of Norwich
and her Audience' RES 28 (1977)
S. de Beauvoir: The Second Sex,
(1949) tr. 1953 chapter on mystics.
Frances Beer, Women and
Mystical
Experience in the Middle Ages, Boydell 1992. (See review in Medium
Aevum 62, 1993 p. 322).
c. Hildegard
S. Flanagan: Hildegard of
Bingen:
A Visionary Life. (Routledge, 1989)
Hildegard of Bingen: Book of
Divine Works with Letters and Songs, (ed.) M. Fox, (Santa Fe: Bear
& Co., 1987.)
B. Newman: Sister of Wisdom:
St Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine (Berkeley 1987)
Hildegard of Bingen: An
Anthology
ed. F. Bowie and O. Davies (SPCK 1991)
Beguine Spirituality: An
Anthology
ed and tr. F. Bowie and O. Davies, (SPCK, 1989)
d. Middle English Translations
of
Writings by Continental Women
The Book of Gostlye Grace by
Mechtilde of Helfte, ed. T. Halligan (Toronto, 1979)
The Liber Celestis of St.
Bridget
of Sweden. ed. R. Ellis. (EETS 291) 1987.
Margaret Porete: The Mirror
of Simple Souls. ed. M. Doiron (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura,
repr.
from Archivio italiano per la storia della Pieta V. (almost
unobtainable,
see relevant chapter in P. Dronke: Women Writers of the Middle Ages.
The Orchard of Syon. ed.
P. Hodgson and G. Liegey (EETS 258) 1966. (15c. translation of
Catherine
of Siena's Dialogue)
Links to:
Julian
and other 'Godfriends' site
luminarium
Julian site
some
medieval
mystics
a
Margery Kempe site