Liz Herbert McAvoy

Liz Herbert McAvoy is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University, Wales, and honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol, England. She has published widely in the areas of medieval women's writing, medieval anchoritism and spirituality.

Books by the Author

Women’s Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages
The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary
Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe
A Revelation of Purgatory
Medieval Anchorites in their Communities
Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture
Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture
A Companion to Julian of Norwich
Medieval Anchoritisms
Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts
Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England
The Book of Margery Kempe
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