1. Thomas de Cantimpré, The Life of Margaret of Ypres, trans. Margot H. King (Toronto, ON, 1999), p. 19.
2. Anselm of Canterbury, ‘Prayer to Christ’, in The Prayers and Meditations of Saint Anselm, trans. Benedicta Ward (Harmondsworth, 1973), p. 97.
3. Catherine M. Mooney, ‘Voice, Gender, and the Portrayal of Sanctity’, in Catherine M. Mooney (ed.), Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and their Interpreters (Philadelphia, PA, 1999), pp. 1–15.
4. For an overview of this scholarship see John Van Engen, ‘The Christian Middle Ages as an Historiographical Problem’, American Historical Review, 91 (1986), pp. 519–552. Among the classic evocations of the spiritual energy of the twelfth century are Morris, Discovery of the Individual, esp. pp. 139–157;
5. Jean Leclercq, The Love of Learning and the Desire for God, trans. Catherine Misrahi (New York, 1961); see also the dated (first published in German in 1935)