Medieval anchorites in their communities /
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 withdraw...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
D. S. BREWER,
2017
Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2017 Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2017 Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : D.S. Brewer an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2017 |
| Series: | Studies in the history of medieval religion ;
45 Studies in the history of medieval religion ; v. 45 Studies in the history of medieval religion v. 45 Studies in the history of medieval religion v. 45 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. 'No such thing as society?' : solitude in community / Cate Gunn and Liz Herbert McAvoy
- 'O Sely Ankir!' / E.A. Jones
- Part I. Religious communities. The Anchoress of Colne Priory : a solitary in community / Cate Gunn
- Anchorites in their heavenly communities / Sophie Sawicka-Sykes
- Rule within rule, cell within cloister : Grimlaicus's Regula solitariorum / Andrew Thornton
- Part II. Lay Communities. English nuns as 'anchoritic intercessors' for souls in purgatory : the employment of A revelation of purgatory by late medieval English nunneries for their lay communities / Clarck Drieshen
- 'In aniversaries of ower leoveste freond seggeth alle nihene' : anchorites, chantries and purgatorial patronage in medieval England / Michelle M. Sauer
- 'Item receyvyd of ye anker' : the relationships between a parish and its anchorites as seen through the churchwardens' accounts / Clare M. Dowding
- The curious incident of the hermit in Fisherton / James Plumtree
- Was Julian's nightmare a māre? : Julian of Norwich and the vernacular community of storytellers / Godelinde Gertrude Perk
- Part III. Textual communities. Anchoritic textual communities and the Wooing Group prayers / Catherine Innes-Parker
- The anchoress transformed : on wel swud̈e god ureisun of God almihti and þe wohunge of ure lauerd in the fourteenth-century A talkyng of the love of God / Diana Denissen
- Ancrene Wisse and the Egerton hours / Dorothy Kim