‘Envisioning Reform: A Revelation of Purgatory and Anchoritic compassioun in the Later Middle Ages’

This chapter examines a little known female-authored medieval text, written by an anonymous female anchorite who was a contemporary of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. It argues for its considerable importance within the contexts of the history of women's writing and, more pertinently, the imperative for church reform which characterised fifteenth-century English ecclesiastical politics