Nottingham Medieval Studies 69 (2025)

Foreword — Louise Nelstrop

Introduction — Eleni Ponirakis

Part One. Monastic Poetics and Mystical Union

The Exeter Book’s Fish in the River Riddle and its Contemplative Turn — MICHAEL TRESCHOW

Cynewulf’s Resonance within the Vercelli Book: Linguistic and Spiritual Perspectives Performed across Poetry and Prose — JACOB W. RUNNER

Gathering Up The Fragments: Homiletic Fragment II — PAUL CAVILL

Part Two. Mystical Devotion and the Maternal Divine

Early English Mariology in　Genesis A, the Order of the World, the Alfredian ‘Boethius’ Metre 29, the Apostles’ Creed　and　the Advent Lyrics: ‘Χαῖρε, Νύμφη Ἀνύμφευτε’ — TATYANA SOLOMONIK-PANKRASHOVA

Seeking the Mother-God: Divine Maternity in Islamic and Christian Contemplative Texts — AYOUSH LAZIKANI

Love Conquers All: Chaucer’s Prioress as a Mystic — RICHARD NORTH

Part Three. Presence in Absence: Spirits of the Dead in Space and Time

Temporal and Spiritual Disjuncture in The Prioress’s Tale — LUCY TURTON

The Depiction of Ghosts in Two Middle English Romances — LIDÓN PRADES-YERVES

Gasts and Gaps: Making Space for Souls in the Middle English Gast of Gy and an Illumination in Simon Marmion’s La Vision de l'âme de Guy de Thurno — CORINNE CLARK