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Anchoritic Spirituality
Language: en
Pages: 516
Authors: Anne Savage
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Paulist Press

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Sometime in the first quarter of the 13th century a number of works were written for anchoresses, women who lived as religious recluses in cells adjoining churc
Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: William F. Pollard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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Essays on the ways in which the mystical writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth century responded to and influenced each other.
Reading Medieval Anchoritism
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Mari Hughes-Edwards
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-15 - Publisher: University of Wales Press

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This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as t
Gender and Holiness
Language: en
Pages: 215
Authors: Sam Riches
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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This volume examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilize binary gender itself. Though saints may be cl
The Materiality of Middle English Anchoritic Devotion
Language: en
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Authors: Michelle Sauer
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-31 - Publisher: ARC Humanities Press

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Explores materiality in Middle English anchoritic texts, encompassing guidance literature, hagiographies, miracle narratives, medical discourse, and mystic pros