This book provides insights into the intellectual lives, spiritual culture, and literary authorship of medieval women. Some Opening Words xi Acknowledgments xvii INTRODUCTION Reading, Writing, and Relationships in Dialogue 1(30) LINDA OLSON When Women Preached: An Introduction to Female Homiletic, Sacramental, and Liturgical Roles in the Later Middle Ages 31(26) KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON THE DIALOGUES ONE Spaces between Letters: Augustine's Correspondence with Women 57(16) CATHERINE CONYBEARE Response to Catherine Conybeare: Women of Letters? 73(24) MARK VESSEY TWO Sharing Texts: Anselmian Prayers, a Nunnery's Psalter, and the Role of Friendship 97(17) MARY JANE MORROW A Token of Friendship? Anselmian Prayers and a Nunnery's Psalter: Response to Mary Jane Morrow: Where Do We Go from Here? 114(11) DAVID N. BELL THREE Epistolae duorum amantium and the Ascription to Heloise and Abelard 125(42) C. STEPHEN JAEGER The Authorship of the Epistolae duorum amantium: A Reconsideration 167(12) GILES CONSTABLE A Reply to Giles Constable 179(8) C. STEPHEN JAEGER FOUR Listening for the Voices of Admont's Twelfth-Century Nuns 187(12) ALISON I. BEACH The Voices of Women in Twelfth-Century Europe 199(14) JOHN VAN ENGEN FIVE Women and Creative Intelligence in Medieval Thought 213(18) ALCUIN BLAMIRES More Thoughts on Medieval Women's Intelligence: Denied, Projected, Embodied 231(14) BARBARA NEWMAN SIX Eciam Mulier: Women in Lollardy and the Problem of Sources 245(16) FIONA SOMERSET Eciam Lollardy: Some Further Thoughts on Fiona Somerset's Eciam Mulier: Women in Lollardy and the Problem of Sources 261(18) KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON SEVEN The Wyclte Woman: Reading Women in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia 279(23) ALFRED THOMAS Response to Alfred Thomas's The Wyclte Woman: Reading Women in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia 302(5) DYAN ELLIOTT EIGHT Playing Doctor: St. Birgitta, Ritual Reading, and Ecclesiastical Authority 307(28) KATHERINE ZIEMAN Voices Magnified: Response to Katherine Zieman 335(10) MARGOT E. FASSLER NINE Reading Lessons at Syon Abbey: The Myroure of Oure Ladye and the Mandates of Vernacular Theology 345(32) ELIZABETH SCHIRMER General Words: Response to Elizabeth Schirmer 377(18) STEVEN JUSTICE TEN The Making of The Book of Margery Kempe 395(40) NICHOLAS WATSON Text and Self in The Book of Margery Kempe 435(19) FELICITY RIDDY Afterwords 454(5) FELICITY RIDDY AND NICHOLAS WATSON ELEVEN Stepping into the Pulpit? Women's Preaching in The Book of Margery Kempe and The Examinations of Anne Askew 459(24) GENELLE GERTZ-ROBINSON Response to Genelle Gertz-Robinson: Stepping into the Pulpit? 483(10) DAVID WALLACE Contributors 493(6) Index of Manuscripts 499(2) Index of Historical Names, Places, and Titles 501