Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing: Reading the Book of Life

Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker is Emerita at the University of Leiden and previously taught Medieval History Studies the University of Groningen. She is the author of Sanctity and Motherhood; The Invention of Saintliness; The Prime of Their Lives: Wise Old Women in Pre-Industrial Europe (together with Rene Nip); and Lives of the Anchoresses: The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe. Liz, Herbert Mcavoy is Senior Lecturer in Gender, in English Studies and Medieval Literature at Swansea University. She is the author of Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs; and A Companion to Julian of Norwich. She is currently working on a monograph which examines the intersections of gender and space within texts written by, for, and about medieval anchorites.Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B. is the author of 'Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing: Reading the Book of Life', published 2009 under ISBN 9780230602878 and ISBN 0230602878.