The Vernacular Spirit

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Rolle Playing: “And the Word Became Flesh”

Chapter 3 Disruptive Simplicity: Gaytryge’s Translation of Archbishop Thoresby’s Injunctions

Chapter 4 Excitative Speech: Theories of Emotive Response from Richard Fitzralph to Margery Kempe

Chapter 6 The Mirror and the Rose: Marguerite Porete’s Encounter with the Dieu d ’ Amours

Chapter 7 Digulleville’s Pèlerinage de Jésus Christ : A Poem of Courtly Devotion

Chapter 8 The Royal Vernacular: Poet and Patron in Christine de Pizan’s Charles V and the Sept psaumes allégorisés

Chapter 9 Can God Speak in the Vernacular? On Beatrice of Nazareth’s Flemish Exposition of the Love for God

Chapter 10 Thieves and Carnivals: Gender in German Dominican Literature of the Fourteenth Century

Chapter 11 The Erosion of a Monopoly: German Religious Literature in the Fifteenth Century

Chapter 12 Female Patronage of Vernacular Religious Works in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Aristocratic Women and Their Confessors

Chapter 13 Cisneros and the Translation of Women’s Spirituality

Chapter 14 “Este gran Dios de las cavallerías” [This Great God of Chivalric Deeds]: St. Teresa’s Performances of the Novels of Chivalry