Medieval Women and their Spiritual Texts: Helfta Writings, Margery Kempe, and Beyond
Essays in Honour of Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
Edited by Anne Mouron Edited by Marleen Cre Edited by Mami Kanno
Hardback (Forthcoming)
(August 2026)
ISBN: 9782503621029
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This volume combines new approaches on Margery Kempe and cutting-edge research on the thirteenth-century Helfta mystics, Mechthild of Hackeborn and Gertrude the Great, in a Festschrift to celebrate and honour the distinguished career of Professor Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa (Shizuoka University, Japan).
This volume offers essays at the cutting edge of research to honour and reflect on the distinguished career of Professor Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa and her numerous publications on medieval religious women, notably the German nun Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241–1298), as well as the English mystic Margery Kempe (1373–1438) whose Boke she translated into Japanese with Mikiko Ishii. If interest in Margery‘s text has long been established, the same is not true of Mechthild’s Liber specialis gratiae, especially in the English-speaking world. The new edition of its Middle English translation, The Boke of Gostely Grace: The Middle English Translation: A Critical Edition from Oxford, MS Bodley 220 by Yoshikawa and Mouron with the assistance of Atherton, and the accompanying volume, A Companion to the Boke of Gostely Grace: The Middle English Translation and its European Vernacular Contexts, have gone some length to redress the situation, and to acknowledge the importance of Mechthild of Hackeborn and her fellow nun, Gertrude the Great, in medieval European mysticism. The present publication, written by both seasoned and early-career scholars, builds on these two volumes. It provides further insights into Mechthild and Gertrude; it offers new approaches to Margery Kempe; and it considers their influence on later writers. It is hoped that this Festschrift will inspire further interest and innovative research on works written and dictated by medieval women.
- Edited by Anne Mouron
- Edited by Marleen Cre
- Edited by Mami Kanno
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The Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramee, Arnulf, Lay Brother of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers
Volume 6
Saints Edith and Aethelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience
The Wilton Chronicle and the Wilton Life of St Aethelthryth
Volume 25
The Manere of Good Lyvyng
A Middle English Translation of Pseudo-Bernard's 'Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem'
Volume 30
Saints’ Lives for Medieval English Nuns, II
An Edition of the 'Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604
Volume 32
Sacred Communities, Shared Devotions
Gender, Material Culture, and Monasticism in Late Medieval Germany
Volume 29
Saints’ Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I
A Study of the 'Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604
Volume 18
Living Saints of the Thirteenth Century
The Lives of Yvette, Anchoress of Huy; Juliana of Cornillon, Author of the Corpus Christi Feast; and Margaret the Lame, Anchoress of Magdeburg
Volume 20
The Sisterbook of Master Geert’s House, Deventer
The Lives and Spirituality of the Sisters, c. 1390-c. 1460
Volume 33
Mystics, Goddesses, Lovers, and Teachers
Medieval Visions and Their Legacies / Studies in Honour of Barbara Newman
Volume 31
Thomas of Cantimpre
The Collected Saints' Lives: Abbot John of Cantimpre, Christina the Astonishing, Margaret of Ypres, and Lutgard of Aywieres
Volume 19
Medieval Women – Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain
Essays in Honour of Felicity Riddy
Volume 3
Virgins and Scholars
A Fifteenth-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria
Volume 10
The Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing
A Middle English Version of Material Derived from the Trotula and other Sources
Volume 4
Three Women of Liege
A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Middle English Lives of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies
Volume 23