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Medieval Women Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain. Essays in Honour of Felicity biddy, ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Rosalynn Voaden, Arlyn Diamond, Ann Hutchinson, Carol Meale, and Lesley Johnson (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000). xv + 433 PP.; 10 plates. ISBN 2-503-509-7. Eur. 50.00 This wide-ranging collection brings together work by literary, historical, and archaeological scholars. Following an introduction and bibliography of the published writings of Felicity Riddy, the volume's essays are grouped in three sections. Section i, `Reading matters', comprises essays by Priscilla Bawcutt, "`My bright buke": women and their books in medieval and Renaissance Scotland'; Julia Boffey, "`Many grete myraclys ... in divers contreys of the eest": the reading and...