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Pages: 214
Authors: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Categories: History
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An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages.
Anchoritism in the Middle Ages
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Pages: 222
Authors: Catherine Innes-Parker
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-30 - Publisher: University of Wales Press

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This volume explores medieval anchoritism (the life of a solitary religious recluse) from a variety of perspectives. The individual essays conceive anchoritism
Reading Medieval Anchoritism
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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
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Authors: Mari Hughes-Edwards
Categories: Religion
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Medieval anchorites willingly embraced the most extreme form of solitude known to the medieval world, so they might forge a closer connection with God. Yet to b
Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 421
Authors: Robert Mills
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-27 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled “sodomitical” or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the “unment