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

Preface: Tributes to Catherine Innes-Parker by Shannon Murray and Anne SavageIntroduction: Speaking of Past and Present: Giving Voice to Silence - CATE GUNN, LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY and NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWAPART I: THE WOOING GROUP: SILENCE AND ARTICULATIONVoicing the Creed in On Lofsong of ure Louerde - ANNIE SUTHERLANDBreath Courting Silence in The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd - DENIS RENEVEYOf Loves Both Spoken and Silent: R¿bi¿a al-¿Adawiyya and the Wooing Group - AYOUSH LAZIKANIPART II: DEVOTIONAL TEXTS AND THEIR INTERTEXTSSourcing a Critical Edition of A Talkyng of the Loue of God - MARGARET HEALY-VARLEYSpeaking beyond the Anchorhold in Richard Rolle's Form of Living - JENNIFER N. BROWN'Speech is silver, silence gold': Enclosure and Silence in Late Medieval Texts for Religious Women - ANNE MOURONArboreal Articulation: The Testimony of Trees in the Late-Medieval Religious Imaginary - LIZ HERBERT MCAVOYPART III: HEARING AND SPEAKING: UNCOVERING THE FEMALE READERVernacular Textuality in Thirteenth-Century England: The Ancrene Wisse Group Recontextualized - NICHOLAS WATSONNot So Silent After All: Women Intellectuals and Readers in Medieval Oxford - KATHRYN KERBY-FULTONA Ladder for Sisters - MICHAEL SARGENTPART IV: MANUSCRIPTS SPEAKING ACROSS BORDERSSilence, Sources and Medieval Women: From Alien Bride to Spiritual Director - JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNEAnchoritic Interplay between Jan van Ruusbroec's The Spiritual Espousals and its Contributions to The Chastising of God's Children - MICHELLE M. SAUERCecily Neville's Devotional Library: Networks of Readers and Models of Female Piety - NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWAEnvoi: 'Þis seli stilðe': Silence and Stillness in the Anchorhold: Lessons for the Modern World? - CATE GUNNBibliography of the Writings of Catherine Innes-ParkerIndexTabula in Memoriam