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Aelred of Rievaulx. The Mirror of Charity. Trans. G. Webb and A. Walker. London, 1962.

----Aelred of Rievaulx’s De institutione inclusarum: Two English Versions. Ed. J. Ayto and Alexandra Barratt. EETS, o.x. 287. Oxford, 1984.

Angela of Foligno. Complete Works. Trans. Paul Lachance. New York: Paulist Press, 1993.

----Il Libro della Beata Angela da Foligno. Ed. Ludger Their, O.F.M and Abele Calufetti, O.F.M. Rome: Editions Colegii S. Bonaventurae ad Claras Aquas, 1985.

Birgitta of Sweden.  Life and Selected Revelations.  Ed. Marguerite Tjader Harris.  Trans. Albert Ryle Kezel.  New York:  Paulist Press, 1990.

----The Revelations of Saint Birgitta. Ed. W. P. Cumming. EETS, o.s. 178, London, 1929.

----Saint Bride and Her Book:  Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations.  Trans. Julia Bolton Holloway.  Newburyport, MA: Focus Texts, 1992.

Blunt, J. H., ed.  The Myroure of oure Ladye. EETS, e.s. 19, London, 1873.

Bokenham, Osbern. Bokenham’s Legendys of Hooly Wummen. Ed. M. S. Serjeantson. EETS, o.s. 206. London, 1938. 

----Legends of Holy Women.  Trans. Sheila Delany.  Notre Dame, IN:  University of Notre Dame Press, 1992. 

Bowie, Fiona, ed.  Beguine Spirituality:  Mystical Writings of Mechthild of Magdeburg, Beatrice of Nazareth, and Hadewijch of Brabant.  Translations by Oliver Davies.  New York:  Crossroad, 1989. 

Cantimpré, Thomas de.  The Life of Christina Mirabilis.  Peregrina Translation Series, 2.  Trans.  Margot King.  Toronto:  Peregrina, 1997. 

Catherine of Siena. Dialogue.  Trans. Sarah Noffke.  New York: Paulist Press, 1980. 

----The Life of St. Catherine of Siena by Blessed Raymond of Capua. Trans. G. Lamb. London, 1960.

Capgrave, John. The Life of St. Katharine of Alexandria. Ed. Carl Horstmann. EETS. London, 1893.

Cazelles, Brigitte, ed.  The Lady as Saint:  A Collection of French Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 

Clark, Elizabeth A. and Herbert Richardson, eds.  Women and Religion:  The Original Sourcebook of Women in Christian Thought.  San Francisco: Harper, 1997. 

Elizabeth of Hungary. Two Middle English Translations of the Revelations of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Ed. Sarah McNamer. Heidelberg, 1996.

Gertrud the Great of Helfta.  Spiritual Exercises.  Trans. Gertrud Jaron Lewis and Jack Lewis.  Cistercian Fathers Series, 49.  Kalamazoo:  Cistercian Publications, 1989. 

Gottfried of Disibodenberg and Theodoric of Echternach.  The Life of the Saintly Hildegard.  Trans. Hugh Feiss.  Toronto:  Peregrina Publishing, 1996. 

Hildegard of Bingen.  The Book of the Rewards of Life (liber vitae meritorium).  Trans. Bruce W. Hozeski.  Garland Library of Medieval Literature, v.  89.  New York:  Garland, 1994. 

----The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen.  Trans. Joseph L. Baird and Radd K. Ehrman.  Vol. 1.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1994. 

----Mystical Writings.  Ed. Fiona Bowie and Oliver Davies.  New York:  Crossroad, 1990. 

----Scivias.  Trans. Columba Hart and Jane Bishop.  New York:  Paulist Press, 1990. 

----Symphonia:  A Critical Edition of the `Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum'.  Ed. and trans. Barbara Newman.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. 

Hilton, Walter. The Scale of Perfection. Ed. and trans. John H. P. Clark and R. Dorward. New York: Paulist Press, 1991.

Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim.  The Plays of Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim.  Trans. Larissa Bonfante.  New York:  New York University Press, 1979. 

----The Plays of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim.  Trans. Katharina Wilson.  New York:  Garland, 1989.

Jacques de Vitry, The Life of Marie d'Oignes, trans. Margot King, Peregrina Translations Series 3 (Toronto: Peregrina, 1989).

Julian of Norwich. A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich.  Ed. Edmund Colledge and James Walsh.  Toronto:  Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies,   1978. 

----A Revelation of Love.  Ed. Marion Glasscoe.  Exeter, Devon: University of Exeter, 1986. 

----The Shewings of Julian of Norwich.  Ed. Georgia Crampton. Middle English Texts.   Kalamazoo:  Medieval Institute Publications, 1993. 

----Showings.  Trans. Edmund Colledge and James Walsh.  New York:  Paulist Press, 1978. 

Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. Ed. Sanford Brown Meech with prefatory note by Hope Emily Allen. Oxford: EETS/Oxford University Press, 1940.

----- The Book of Margery Kempe, Fourteen Hundred and Thirty-Six. Ed. W. Butler-Bowdon. New York: The Devlin-Adair Co., 1944. 

----- The Cell of Self-Knowledge: Early English Mystical Treatises. New York: Crossroad, 1981. 
 

----- The Book of Margery Kempe. Trans. with an introduction by Barry Windeatt. London: Penguin Books, 1985.

---- The Book of Margery Kempe: the Autobiography of the Madwoman of God. Trans. Tony D. Triggs. Liguori, MO: Triumph Books, 1995.

----The Book of Margery Kempe.  Ed. Lynn Staley.  Kalamazoo:  Medieval Institute Publications, 1996. 

----The Book of Margery Kempe. Ed. Barry Windeatt. London: Longman, 2000.

Love, Nicholas, Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, A Critical Edition. Ed. Michael G. Sargent New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992.

Margaret of Oingt. The Writings of Margaret of Oingt, Medieval Prioress and Mystic, d. 1310.  Trans. Renate Blumfeld-Kosinski. Newburyport, MA: Focus, 1990.

Millett, Bella, and Jocelyn Wogan-Brown, ed. and trans. Medieval English Prose for Women, from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.

Petroff, Elizabeth, ed.  Medieval Women's Visionary Literature.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1986. 

Porete, Margaret. “Margaret Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls. A Middle English Translation.” Tr. M. Doiron. Archivo Italiano per la Storia della Pietà 5 (1968): 241-355. 

Radice, Betty, trans.  The Letters of Abelard and Heloise.  Harmondsworth:  Penguin, 1974. 

Rolle, Richard. English Writings of Richard Rolle. Ed. Hope Emily Allen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931.

----Richard Rolle: The English Writings. Tr. Rosamund Allen, Preface by Valerie Lagorio. New York: Paulist Press, 1988.

Ragusa, Isa and Rosalie Green, trans. Meditations on the Life of Christ, An Illustrated Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century. Princeton University Press: Princeton NJ, 1961. 

Ryan. W. G, trans. The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Savage, Ann and Nicholas Watson, trans. Anchoritic Spirituality: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Works. New York:  Paulist Press, 1991. 

Talbot, Alice-Mary, ed.  Holy Women of Byzantium:  Ten Saints' Lives in English TranslationByzantine Saints' Lives in Translation, 1.  Washington,  D.C.; Dumbarton Oaks, 1996.

Thiébaux, Marcelle, trans.  The Writings of Medieval Women.  2nd edition.  Garland Library of Medieval Literature, 14.  New York:  Garland, 1987. 

Wilson, Katharina M, ed.  Medieval Women Writers.  Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 1984. 

----, ed.  Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation.  Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 1987.