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If we scrape the bottom of the barrel of our mind and keep it open and our humor intact, we can each write a novel. Life dishes out gifts and surprises, so we may find several saints and a scoundrel or two. Skeletons may line the closet of many families if we rattle the bones. But history never reveals all it knows and often leaves a cache of unsolved mysteries. The thrill is in the chase. The chase began when two writers rattled the family bones and grabbed onto the coattail of their grandfather, Andrew Charles Bullard, as the 39-year-old venturer fled Illlinois in 1885 and practiced...

The essays in this book aim to provide an evaluation of this late 14th- and early 15th-century mystical writer's book of revelations, and to consider the construction of her narrative, its theological complexity, and its literary and intellectual context. The casebook features discussions ranging from genre to eschatology and gynaecology to diabology, reflecting both modern and comparative theory. Providing translations of all Middle English quotations, the volume includes a selective bibliography that aims to provide a guide to further reading.