This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval and early modern women across Western Europe.

1. Mystical Hagiography in the Thirteenth Century: The Low Countries and Italy 2. Annihilated Women in the Thirteenth Century 3. Hidden Marks of Leadership: Holy Women and Invisible Stigmata in the Late Middle Ages 4. 'Enarrabiliter': The Separation of Visionary Experience and Communicable Form in Hildegard of Bingen's Vision Books 5. Gender and Feminine Virtue in Bernard of Clairvaux and Hadewijch 6. Kenotic Christology, Poverty, and Annihilation in Clare of Assisi and Angela of Foligno 7. Mysticism by the Numbers: Beatrice of Nazareth's Seven Manners of Love and Ida of Nivelles' 'Eight Topics of Contemplation' 8. Spiritual Edifices: Beatrice of Nazareth's Monastery of the Heart and Agnes Blannbekin's Urban Stations of Christ 9. The Mystic as Symbol: Ecstasy as Liturgical Participation in the Vita of Beatrice of Nazareth 10. 'I Want to Die Living': The Entanglement of Death and Desire in Mechthild of Magdeburg 11. Spiritual Vision in Corporeal Space: The Power of Performative Language in the Mystical Life of Christina of Hane 12. Can This Text Still Speak? Reading Julian of Norwich's Prayer for Illness as (Fully a Part of) a 'Classic Text' of Embodied Mysticism 13. The Theological Virtues, Interiorisation, and Theological Anthropology in The Evangelical Pearl 14. The Blood and the Word: The Mystical Speech Acts of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi