Medieval anchoritisms : gender, space and the solitary life / Liz Herbert McAvoy.
Material type:
TextSeries: Gender in the Middle Ages ; v. 6.Publication details: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 201 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781846157929
- 1846157927
- Hermits
- Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
- British literature
- Civilization, Medieval
- Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Monasticism and religious orders -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Monasticism and religious orders
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History
- Religion
- Literature
- RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval
- Church history -- Middle Ages
- Hermits
- 600-1500
- 271/.02 23
- BX2845 .H47 2011eb
Contents:
Summary: An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages.
1. Miles Christi: Early Anchoritic Masculinity and the Sacred -- 2. Videte vocacionem vestram: Late-Medieval Male Anchoritism and the Spectral Feminine -- 3. Writing the Flesh: Female Anchoritism and the Master Narrative -- 4. Reading with the Eyes Closed: Revising the Master Narrative -- 5. Mapping the Anchorhold: Anchorites, Borderlands and Liminal Spaces.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-194) and index.
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1. Miles Christi: Early Anchoritic Masculinity and the Sacred -- 2. Videte vocacionem vestram: Late-Medieval Male Anchoritism and the Spectral Feminine -- 3. Writing the Flesh: Female Anchoritism and the Master Narrative -- 4. Reading with the Eyes Closed: Revising the Master Narrative -- 5. Mapping the Anchorhold: Anchorites, Borderlands and Liminal Spaces.
An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages.
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