The Materiality of Middle English Anchoritic Devotion / / ed. by Michelle M. Sauer, Jenny C. Bledsoe.

Anchorites and their texts, such as Ancrene Wisse, have recently undergone a reevaluation based on material circumstances, not just theological import. The articles here address a variety of anchoritic or anchoritic-adjacent texts, encompassing guidance literature, hagiographies, miracle narratives,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Early Middle English Books
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Physical Description:1 online resource (150 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • BODIES, OBJECTS, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THINGS IN EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH RECLUSION: AN INTRODUCTION
  • CLOTHING AND FEMALE RECLUSION IN THE LIFE OF MARY OF EGYPT AND THE LIFE OF CHRISTINA OF MARKYATE
  • MATERIALITY, DOCUMENTARY AUTHORITY, AND THE CIRCULATION OF THE KATHERINE GROUP
  • FRAMING MATERIALITY: RELIC DISCOURSE AND MEDIEVAL ENGLISH ANCHORITISM
  • RELICS AND THE RECLUSE’S TOUCH IN GOSCELIN’S MIRACLES OF ST. EDMUND
  • MARY, SILENCE, AND THE FICTIONS OF POWER IN ANCRENE WISSE 2.269–481
  • THE ANCHORITIC BODY AT PRAYER IN GOSCELIN OF SAINT-BERTIN’S LIBER CONFORTATORIUS
  • STUPOR IN JOHN OF GADDESDEN’S ROSA MEDICINAE
  • THE MATERIAL OF VERNACULAR ENGLISH DEVOTION: TEMPTATION AND SWEETNESS IN ANCRENE WISSE AND RICHARD ROLLE’S FORM OF LIVING
  • THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF AN ANCHORITE CELL AT RUYTON, SHROPSHIRE
  • INDEX