List of Illustrations  List of Abbreviations  Acknowledgments  1. Introduction: The Performance of Reading 2. "Silence Visible": Carthusian Devotional Reading and Meditative Practice      Backgrounds: The Carthusian Order      Carthusians and Books      Carthusians and Art  3. The Shapes of Eremitic Reading in the Desert of Religion      The Desert of Religion as Imagetext      "Als Wildernes Is Wroght þis Boke": Formats of Monastic Books      Reading Spiritual Community in the Wilderness  4. Lyric Imaginings and Painted Prayers      The Eremitic Lyric and Richard Rolle      Imagining the Carthusian Reader  5. Liturgical Pageantry in Private Spaces      Reading the Liturgy: Two Models      Performing the Holy Name      Performing the Canonical Hours      Performing the Seven Sacraments  6. Envisioning Dialogue in Performance      "In Maner of a Dyaloge It Wente"      Allegorical Dialogues: The Pylgremage of the Sowle      Mystical Dialogues: The Tretyse of þe Seven Poyntes of Trewe Love and Everlastynge Wisdame  7. Dramatizing the Cell: Theatrical Performances in Monastic Reading      Dramatic Texts, Lyric Voices, and Private Readers      Theatrical Reading in Additional 3749      Monastic Closet Drama  8.

Conclusion: Reading Performances  Appendix: Contents of British Library MS Additional 3749  Notes   Bibliography  Index.