Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The dynamics of devotional compilations: Building a bestseller : the priest, the peartree, and the compiler / Vincent Gillespie
  • Compilation : the gift that keeps on giving / Ralph Hanna
  • Theorizing the miscellaneous and the middle English Biblical paratext / Ian Johnson
  • A talkyng of the love of God : the art of compilation and the compiled self / Annie Sutherland
  • Reading late medieval devotional compilations in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Margaret Connolly
  • Part II. Compiling the compilation : manuscript transmission: Form and fluidity : reshaping the Pore caitif and Contemplations of the dread and love of God in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 423 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 938 / Diana Denissen
  • Suffering for love : compilation and asceticism in Life of soul / Sarah MacMillan
  • Compilers' voices in Cambridge, University Library MS Ii. 6. 40 / Marleen CreÌ?
  • Part III. Compilation and devotional practice: A hagiographic compilation of medieval native women in the south English legendaries : Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 779 / Mami Kanno
  • Devotional compilations and Lollard sanctity in a fifteenth-century anthology / Nicole R. Rice
  • "When is a man proude. When he wol not beknowen suche as he is" : knowing oneself in London, British Library, MS Additional 27787 / Sheri Smith
  • Resignation or rebuttal? Three Biblical exempla in Richard Whitford's Dyuers holy instrucyons and teachynges / Brandon Alakas
  • Part IV. Mystics compiled: "Desyrable is thi name" : fashioning the name of Jesus in some devotional compilations / Denis Renevey
  • The Scale of perfection in devotional compilations / Michael G. Sargent
  • The Liber specialis gratiae in a devotional anthology : London, British Library, MS Harley 494 / Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
  • Part V. Texts, images and affect: The living book of Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.15.42 : compilation, meditation, and vision / Laura Saetveit Miles
  • The Desert of religion : a textual and visual compilation / Anne Mouron
  • What grace in presence : affective literacies in The chastising of God's children / A.S. Lazikani.