New essays on the burgeoning of pastoral and devotional literature in medieval England.

Preface: Bella MillettBibliography of Bella Millett's WritingsIntroduction - Derek Pearsall'Vae Soli': Solitaries and Pastoral Care - E.A. JonesScribal Connections in Late Anglo-Saxon England - Elaine TreharneGerald of Wales, the Gemma Ecclesiastica and Pastoral Care - Brian GoldingTime to Read: Pastoral Care, Vernacular Access and the Case of Angier of St Frideswide - Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneLambeth Palace Library MS 487: Some Problems of Early Thirteenth-century Textual Transmission - Ralph HannaPastoral Texts and Traditions: the Anonymous Speculum Iuniorum [c. 1250] - Joe GoeringReading Edmund of Abingdon's Speculum as Pastoral Literature - Cate GunnMiddle English Versions and Audiences of Edmund of Abingdon's Speculum Religiosorum - Nicholas WatsonTerror and Pastoral Care in Handlyng Synne - Bob HasenfratzProphecy, Complaint and Pastoral Care in the Fifteenth Century: Thomas Gascoigne's Liber Veritatum - Mishtooni BosePastoral Concerns in the Middle English Adaptation of Bonaventure's Lignum Vitae - Catherine Innes-ParkerPrayer, Meditation and Women Readers in Late-Medieval England: Teaching and Sharing through Books - C. Annette Grise'Take a Book and Read': Advice for Religious Women - Alexandra Barratt