READ ME This dataset results from “Women Making Memories: Liturgy and the Remembering Female Body in Medieval Holy Women’s Texts,” Godelinde Gertrude Perk’s MSCA-IF project at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 842443. License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ PRIMARY TEXTS The British Isles - Laywoman Margery Kempe (1373- after 1439): The Book of Margery Kempe (ed. Windeatt 2004). - Anchorite Julian of Norwich (c. 1342-after 1416) A Revelation of Love (ed. Watson and Jenkins 2006) The Low Countries - The fifteenth-century Diepenveen Sister-book (ed.Scheepsma, forthcoming) - Modern Devout nuns Mechtild van Rievieren and Jacomijne Costers’ visionary writings (fifteenth century) (ed. de Moor 2011) The German Territories - A Middle Low German prayer book from Medingen, after 1479 ( Ein Niederdeutsches Gebetsbuch, ed. Mante 1960). - The fourteenth-century, anonymous, Middle High German Sisterbook of Katharinental (Diessenhofen) (Das St. Katharinentaler Schwesternbuch, ed. Meyer 1995) ------------------------------- The building blocks are derived from Carruthers' definitions in Craft of Thought and Book of Memory. Unless indicated otherwise, Vulgate numbering is used when citing the Psalms. Unless indicated otherwise, translations are my own. For a summary of the project results: https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2022/12/31/remembering-medieval-memory-experts/ Publications resulting from the project and also drawing on this dataset: Perk, Godelinde Gertrude. “Holy Matter Making Holy Meaning: Fashioning Memory, Community and Dissimilar Similitude in Middle Dutch Sister-Books and The Book of Margery Kempe.” Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, vol. 58, no. 2, 2023, pp. 112–49. Perk, Godelinde Gertrude. “In Loving Memory? Indecent Forgetting of the Dead in Continental Sister-Books and Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love.” Religions, vol. 14, no. 7, 2023, pp. 922. Perk, Godelinde Gertrude. “Minne, Translated: Embodying Liturgy, Love, and Trauma in the Diepenveen Sister-Book and the Facons Revelations.” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (Accepted for publication). Perk, Godelinde Gertrude. “‘Idleness Breeds Disgust for the Cell’: Circumscribing Sloth, Acedia and Health in Anchoritic Literature.” Nordic Journal of English Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, 2022. -------------------------------------- Works Cited Primary Texts De Moor, Geertruida. Twee Vrouwen van de Devotio Moderna. De Geschriften En de Invloed van Jacomijne Costers En Mechtild van Rieviren. (dissertation) 2011. Hier Beghint Dat Leven en Starven Onses Eerwerdighen Vaders Heer Johan Brinckerinck. Compiled by Griete Essinches in 1524. Deventer, Athenaeumbibliotheek, Ms. 101 E 26 KL (DV). I am grateful to Wybren Scheepsma for his scholarly generosity in providing me with a transcript of DV, which will form the basis of his forthcoming edition, also containing an English translation (in collaboration with David F. Johnson). This edition will be published by Brepols. Mante, Axel. Ein Niederdeutsches Gebetbuch aus der zweiten Hälfte des XIV. Jahrhunderts: Bistumsarchiv, Trier, Nr. 528. 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