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Aston, Margaret , "Death" in Horrox, Rosemary, ed. Fifteenth-Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Beckwith, Sarah. Christ’s Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings. London: Routledge, 1993.

Brown, Peter. The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

Brundage, James. Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Burton, Janet E.  Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300.  Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.  New York and Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1994. 

Butler, L, and Christopher Given-Wilson. Medieval Monasteries of Great Britain. London, 1979.

Bynum, Caroline Walker. The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336.  Lectures on the History of Religions, 15.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. 

Clark, James Midgely.  The Great German Mystics:  Eckhart, Tauler, Seuse.  New York and San Francisco:  Russell and Russell, 1949 [1970]. 

Cook, G. H. Medieval Chantries and Chantry Chapels. London: Phoenix House, 1947. 

Despres, Denise. Ghostly Sights: Visual Meditation in Late-Medieval Literature. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. 

Duffy, Eamon.  The Stripping of the Altars:  Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400-c. 1580.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1992. 

Elliott, Dyan. Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Freed, John B.  "Urban Development and the `cura monialium' in Thirteenth-Century Germany."  Viator 3 (1972) 311-27. 

Foucault, Michel.  The History of Sexuality.  Trans. Robert Hurley.  New York: Pantheon, 1978. 

Gibson, Gail McMurray. The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Gray, Douglas. “Popular Religion and Late Medieval English Literature.” In Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England, ed. Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, Cambridge, 1-28.

Hamburger, Jeffrey. “The Visual and the Visionary: The Image in Late Medieval Monastic Devotion.” Viator 20 (1989): 161-82.

Haas, Alois Maria.  "Schools of Late Medieval Mysticism."  Christian Spirituality:  High Middle Ages and Reformation.  Ed. Jill Raitt.  World Spirituality,  17.  New York:  Crossroad, 1987, 140-75. 

Harper-Bill, C. The Pre-Reformation English Church. London, 1989.

Heffernan, Thomas J.  Sacred Biography:  Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages. New York:  Oxford University Press, 1988.
 
Hughes, Jonathan, Pastors and Visionaries, Religious and Secular Life in Medieval Yorkshire, Boydell & Brewer: Cambridge.

Hudson, Ann, "Lollardy: The English Heresy?" Studies in Church History 18 (1982): 261-83 rep. Lollards and Their Books (Hambleton Press: London. 1985: 141-63.  

James, Mervyn. “Ritual, Drama, and the Social Body in the Late Medieval English Town.” Past and Present 98 (1983): 3-29.

Kieckhefer, Richard.  Unquiet Souls.  Fourteenth-Century Saints and Their Religious Milieu.  Chicago and London:  University of Chicago Press, 1984. 

Knowles, David. Bare Ruined Choirs: The Dissolution of English Monasteries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1976.

Knowles, David. The English Mystical Tradition. London: Burnes, Oates, 1961.

Knowles, David. The Religious Orders in England. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959.  

Lawrence, Clifford Hugh.  Medieval Monasticism:  Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages.  2nd ed.  New York and London: Longman, 1989. 

McGinn, Bernard.  The Presence of God:  A History of Western Christian Mysticism.  Vol. 1:  The Foundations of Mysticism.  New York:  Crossroad, 1991. 

Noble, Thomas F.X., and Thomas Head.  Soldiers of Christ:  Saints and Saints' Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.  University Park: Penn State University, 1995. 

Owst, Gerald R. Preaching in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926.

Owst, Gerald R. Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England, 2nd Edition. London, 1961.

Pantin, W. A. The English Church in the Fourteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955.

Richmond, Colin, "Religion" in Horrox, Rosemary, ed. Fifteenth-Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Riehle, Wolfgang. The Middle English Mystics. London, 1981.

Rosenwein, Barbara H., and Lester K. Little.  "Social Meaning in the Monastic and Mendicant Spiritualities."  Past and Present  63 (1974):  4-32. 

Rubin, Miri. Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 

Sargent, Michael G., ed., De Cella in Secularum; Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England, Boydell & Brewer: Cambridge. 1989.

Seidel, Linda.  "Medieval Cloister Carving and Monastic Mentalité."  The Medieval Monastery.  Ed. Andrew MacLeish.  Medieval Studies at Minnesota  2.  St. Cloud, MN:  North Star Press of St. Cloud, 1988, 1-16. 

Swanson, R. N. Church and Society in Late Medieval England. Oxford, 1989.

Swanson, R. N, trans. Catholic England: Faith, Religion and Observance before the Reformation. Manchester, 1993.

Szarmach, Paul, ed.  An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe:  Fourteen Original Essays.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1984. 

Tanner, Norman P. The Church in Late Medieval Norwich 1370-1532. Toronto: Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, 1984. 

Tentler, T. Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Tugwell, Simon, ed.  Early Dominicans:  Selected Writings.  New York:  Paulist Press, 1982. 

Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism. London, 1941/1993.

Underhill, Evelyn. Mystics of the Church. Cambridge, 1925/1975.

Vauchez, André. The Laity in the Middle Ages: Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices, trans. Margery J. Schneider, ed. Daniel E. Bornstein, University of Notre Dame Press: South Bend, Indiana. 1993.

Vauchez, André. Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages.  London:  Methuen 1930; New York and Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1997. 

Warren, Ann. K., Medieval English Anchorites and Their Patrons. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. 

Watson, Nicholas. “The Middle English Mystics.” In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 539-65.

Westlake, H. F. The Parish Guilds of Mediaeval England. London, 1919.

Windeatt, Barry, ed.  English Mystics of the Middle Ages.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.