Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Mindful Spirit....Pages 1-8
“SWEET JESUS”....Pages 9-19
Amazons and Ursulines....Pages 21-30
Misbehaving God: The Case Of The Christ Child In Ms Laud Misc. 108 “Infancy Of Jesus Christ”....Pages 31-43
“Als I Lay in a Winteris NYT” and the Second Death....Pages 45-56
Inscribing Mentalities: Alan of Lille, The De Lisle Psalter Cherub, and Franciscan Meditation....Pages 57-79
The Middle English St. Francis: Text and Context....Pages 81-91
“Wols-Hede And Outhorne”: The Ban, Bare Life, and Power in the Passion Plays....Pages 93-108
The Failure of Emotion and Reason in the York Cycle....Pages 109-120
John Wyclif—All Women’s Friend?....Pages 121-133
 St. Erkenwald: Narrative and Narrative Artistry....Pages 135-148
“The Greatest Riddle of the B Text” of Piers Plowman: Why Langland did not Scrap The A Vita ....Pages 149-163
Souls That Matter: The Gendering of the Soul in Piers Plowman ....Pages 165-186
The Necessity Of History: The Example Of Chaucer’s “Clerk’s Tale”....Pages 187-210
Host Desecration, Chaucer’s “Prioress’s Tale,” and Prague 1389....Pages 211-224
“Cast Thy Bread Upon the Waters”: A Paradigm From Ecclesiastes in Gower’s “Apollonius of Tyre”....Pages 225-235
Illiterate Memory and Spiritual Experience: Margery Kempe, The Liturgy, and the “Woman in the Crowd”....Pages 237-248
The Family of Origin Versus The Human Family: Universal Love in Literature....Pages 249-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-266