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Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition c.1100-c.1500. Brepols Collected Essays in European Culture. With Alastair Minnis. New York: Brepols, 2010.

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God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writings of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries. York: York Medieval Press, 1999. 204 pp.

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Boydell & Brewer Press

Edited Volumes

Rosalynn Voaden and Diane Wolfthal . Framing the Family: Representation and Narrative in the Medieval and Early Modern Period . Tempe, AZ.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts Series Press, 2004.

Rosalynn Voaden, Jenny Rebecca Rytting, Teresa Sanchez-Roura and René Tixier. The Medieval Translator 8. Brepols, 2004. 348 pp.

Rosalynn Voaden, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Carol Meale, Lesley Johnson, Ann Hutchison and Arlyn Diamond. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late-Medieval Britain: Essays for Felicity Riddy . Turnhout: Brepols, 2000. 436 pp.

Rosalynn Voaden. Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late-Medieval England . Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996. Reprinted 1998. 197 pp.

Manuscript Edition

“The Epistola solitarii ad reges of Alfonso of Jaén : An Edition of the Middle English Text from BL. MS. Cotton Julius Fii.” Studies in St. Birgitta and the Brigittine Order . James Hogg, ed. Salzburg: Analecta Cartusiana , 1993. 142-179.

Articles

“Mysticism and the Body.”  The Oxford Handbook to Medieval Christianity.  John H. Arnold, ed.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013.  A chapter of 8,000 words for this volume.

“Teaching CanLit in Arizona.” Studio:the On-line Literary Journal. (4:2, 2010). Read this article online.

“Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Margery Kempe as Underground Preacher.”  Romance and Rhetoric:  Essays in Honor of Dhira Mahoney.  Georgiana Donavin and Anita Obermeier, eds.  Turnhout: Brepols,  2010.  109-121. 

“Mechtild of Hackeborn.”  Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition, c. 1100-c. 1500.  Rosalynn Voaden and Alastair Minnis, eds.  Turnhout:  Brepols, 2010.  431-51.

with Alastair Minnis.  “Introduction”.  Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition.  Rosalynn Voaden and Alastair Minnis, eds.  Turnhout:  Brepols, 2010.  1-9.

“Epilogue: A Catena of Women.” Women and the Divine in Literature Before 1700:  Essays in Memory of Margot Louis.  Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, ed.  Victoria, B.C.: ELS Editions, 2009.  203-9.

“Who is Marget Thorpe?  Reading Mechtild of Hackeborn in Fifteenth-Century England.”  Religion and Literature 37:2 (summer 2005).  pp. 9-21.

“Family as Pagans in the Vies Occitanes of Elzear of Sabran and Delphine of Puimichel.” Framing the Family: Representation and Narrative in the Medieval and Early Modern Period . Rosalynn Voaden and Diane Wolfthal, eds. Tempe, AZ.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts Series Press, forthcoming 2005.

“Travels with Margery: Pilgrimage in Context.” Eastward Bound: Travel in the Middle Ages. Rosamund Allen, ed. Manchester University Press, 2004.

“Out of the Mouths of Babes: Authority in Pearl and the Chronicles of Richard II.” Youth in the Middle Ages . Jeremy Goldberg and Felicity Riddy, eds. York: York Medieval Press, forthcoming, 2004.

Rosalynn Voaden and Arne Jönsson. “Recommended Reading: Defining the Medieval Visionary. A Facing-Page Comparison of the Middle English and Latin Texts of the Epistola solitarii ad reges of Alfonso of Jaén .” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History , n.s. vol. I, 2001. pp. 149-225.

Rosalynn Voaden and Stephanie Volf. “Visions of My Youth: Representations of the Childhood of Medieval Visionaries.” Gender and History , 2000. 665-84. Reprinted in Gendering the Middle Ages . Pauline Stafford and Anneke Mulder-Bakker, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

“Drinking from the Golden Cup: Courtly Ritual and Order in the Liber specialis gratiae of Mechtild of Hackeborn.” Mystics Quarterly , September 2000. 109-19.

“Rewriting the Letter: Variations in the Middle English Translation of the Epistola ad Reges of Alfonso of Jaén. ” The Translation of St. Birgitta of Sweden's Works into the European Vernaculars . Bridget Morris and Veronica O'Mara, eds. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000. 170-85.

“Words of Flame and Moving Cloud: The Articulation Debate in the Revelations of Medieval Women Visionaries.” The Medieval Translator 6 . Roger Ellis, René Tixier and Bernd Weitemeir, eds. Turnhout: Brepols, 1998. 159-74.

“Beholding Men's Members: the Sexualizing of Transgression in The Book of Margery Kempe .” Medieval Theology and the Natural Body . Peter Biller and Alastair Minnis, eds. York: York Medieval Press, 1997. 175-90.

“All Girls Together: Community, Gender and the Nuns of Helfta.” Medieval Women in their Communities . Diane Watt, ed. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997. 72-91.

“The Company She Keeps: Mechtild of Hackeborn in Late-Medieval Devotional Compilations.” Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late-Medieval England . Rosalynn Voaden, ed. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1996. 51-70.

“Women's Words, Men's Language: discretio spirituum as Discourse in the Writing of Medieval Women Visionaries.” The Medieval Translator 5 . Roger Ellis and René Tixier, eds. Turnhout: Brepols, 1996. 64-83.

“God's Almighty Hand: Women Co-Writing the Book.” Women, the Book, and the Godly . Lesley Smith and Jane Taylor, eds. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1995. 55-66.

“The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction.” Romance Revisited . Lynne Pearce and Jackie Stacey, eds. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1995. 78-88.

Work In Progress

Holy Women and Heresy in Late-Medieval Europe and the British Isles – a monograph.

Household Saints: Saintliness and Domesticity in Late-Medieval Europe, 1200 - 1500.

A monograph which examines and analyses the cultural forces shaping medieval women and men who elected to pursue a life of extreme spiritual rigor while remaining in a domestic environment, rather than entering a monastery or convent.

I am General Editor of a monograph series, Studies in Medieval Mysticism , published by Boydell and Brewer.