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1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in the History of Medieval Religion ; 45 |
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Studies in the history of medieval religion ; 45.
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| Contents |
1. Ò Sely Ankir!' / E.A. Jones -- pt. I Religious Communities -- 2. Anchoress of Colne Priory: A Solitary in Community / Cate Gunn -- 3. Anchorites in their Heavenly Communities / Sophie Sawicka-Sykes -- 4. Rule Within Rule, Cell Within Cloister: Grimlaicus's Regula Solitariorum / Andrew Thornton -- pt. II Lay Communities -- 5. English Nuns as Ànchoritic Intercessors' for Souls in Purgatory: The Employment of A Revelation of Purgatory by Late Medieval English Nunneries for Their Lay Communities / Clarck Drieshen -- 6. Ìn aniversaries of ower leoveste freond seggeth alle nihene': Anchorites, Chantries and Purgatorial Patronage in Medieval England / Michelle M. Sauer -- 7. Ìtem receyvyd of ye Anker': The Relationships between a Parish and its Anchorites as Seen through the Churchwardens' Accounts / Clare M. Dowding -- 8. Curious Incident of the Hermit in Fisherton / James Plumtree -- 9. Was Julian's Nightmare a Mare? Julian of Norwich and the Vernacular Community of Storytellers / Godelinde Gertrude Perk -- pt. III Textual Communities -- 10. Anchoritic Textual Communities and the Wooing Group Prayers / Catherine Innes-Parker -- 11. Anchoress Transformed: On wel swuoe god ureisun of God almihti and pe wohunge of ure lauerd in the Fourteenth-Century A Talkyng of the Love of God / Diana Denissen -- 12. Ancrene Wisse and the Egerton Hours / Dorothy Kim |
| Summary |
Much of the research into medieval anchoritism to date has focused primarily on its liminal and elite status within the socio-religious cultures of its day. The anchorite has long been depicted as both solitary and alone, almost entirely removed from community and living a life of permanent withdrawal and isolation: in effect dead to the world. The essays in this volume, stemming from a variety of cross-disciplinary approaches and methodologies, lay down a challenge to this position, breaking new ground in their presentation of the medieval anchorite and other types of enclosed solitary as playing a central role within the devotional life of a whole range of complex and multifaceted communities: ones that were simultaneously synchronic and diachronic, physical and metaphysical, religious, secular, textual - and gendered. It therefore offers its readers a new way of understanding the operations of the solitary life in the Middle Ages and its interdependence with a whole array of communities, ultimately adding to our knowledge of how spiritual "aloneness" could be pursued ardently, even in the midst of communal interaction |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0. Uk |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hermits -- England -- History -- Congresses
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Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Church history
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Church history -- Middle Ages
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Hermits
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England
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gunn, Cate, editor
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Herbert McAvoy, Liz, editor
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| ISBN |
9781787440296 |
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178744029X |
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