This gendered translation of the Benedictine Rule for women in 1517 is also a handbook for women on exercising authority, management skills and the art of good governance, including monastic property and relations with the outside world. Barry Collett here provides a modern facsimile edition of Fox's translation, written in the tumbling phrases of passionate prose that make Fox stand out as a literary figure of the English Renaissance. Collett also provides an extensive introduction that argues that Fox's experience as an administrator and senior political adviser with special responsibility...

This volume includes the works of three Englishwomen: Julian of Norwich (1342-c. 1416) whose Revelations were first printed in 1670; Margery Kempe (c.1373-c. 1438) from whose "Boke of Marjorie Kempe" a few extracts were printed in 1501 and again in 1512; and, Juliana Berners (possibly c. 1388) whose treatise on hawkyng and huntyng was first printed in 1486, with a second edition containing an additional treatise on fishing. The writings of these three women are brought together in this book because they are amongst the earliest female writers in the English language, they each reflected...