Medieval anchoritisms: gender, space and the solitary life 9781843842774, 1843842777
An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages.
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English Pages ix, 201 s.; 25 cm [214] Year 2011
Table of contents :
CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
1. Miles Christi: Early Anchoritic Masculinity and the Sacred......Page 22
2. Videte vocacionem vestram: Late-Medieval Male Anchoritism and the Spectral Feminine......Page 54
3. Writing the Flesh: Female Anchoritism and the Master Narrative......Page 88
4. Reading with the Eyes Closed: Revising the Master Narrative......Page 124
5. Mapping the Anchorhold: Anchorites, Borderlands and Liminal Spaces......Page 158
AFTERWORD......Page 189
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 192
INDEX......Page 206
CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
1. Miles Christi: Early Anchoritic Masculinity and the Sacred......Page 22
2. Videte vocacionem vestram: Late-Medieval Male Anchoritism and the Spectral Feminine......Page 54
3. Writing the Flesh: Female Anchoritism and the Master Narrative......Page 88
4. Reading with the Eyes Closed: Revising the Master Narrative......Page 124
5. Mapping the Anchorhold: Anchorites, Borderlands and Liminal Spaces......Page 158
AFTERWORD......Page 189
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 192
INDEX......Page 206
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