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; 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.

Barry Collett is Senior Fellow in the History Department at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Contents: Preface by the General Editors; Introductory Note; Julian of Norwich: XVI Revelations of Divine Love Showed to a Devout Servant of our Lord, called Mother Juliana an Achorete of Norwich: Who lived in the days of King Edward the Third (1670); Margery Kempe: [h]ere begynneth a shorte treatyse of contemplacyon taught by our lorde Jhesu criste, or taken out of the boke of Margerie kempe of lyn[n] (c.1501); Margery Kempe: Here begynneth a shorte treatyse of contemplacyon taught by our lorde Jhesu cryst, or taken out of the boke of Margery Kempe, ancresse of Lynne [Title pages and fols D.vi.r-E.iii.v in Here foloweth a veray deuoute treatyse (named Benyamyn) of the myghtes and vertues of mannes soule, & of the way to true contemplaycon, compyled by Rycharde of saynt Vyctor (1521)]; Juliana Berners: This present boke shewyth the manere of hawkynge & huntynge, also of diuysynge of Cote armours & It shewyth also a good matere belongynge to horses: Wyth other com[m]endable treatyses. And federmore of the blasynge of armys: as here after it maye appere (1496).