Medieval Anchorites in their Communities (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gunn, Cate; Mcavoy, Liz Herbert

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays challenging the orthodox opinion of anchorites as entirely divorced from the world around them.

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 withdrawal and isolation, in effect dead to the world. Considerably less attention has been afforded to the communal sociability that also formed part of the reclusivelife during the period,
The essays in this volume, stemming from a variety of cross-disciplinary approaches and methodologies, lay down a challenge to this position, breaking new ground in their presentation of the medievalanchorite and other types of enclosed solitary as playing a central role within the devotional life of the communities in which they were embedded. They attest also to the frequent involvement of anchorites and other recluses in local, national and, sometimes, international matters of importance. Overall, the volume suggests that, far from operating on the socio-religious periphery, as posited previously, the medieval anchorite was more often found at theheart of a sometimes intersecting array of communities: synchronic and diachronic; physical and metaphysical; religious and secular; gendered and textual.

CATE GUNN has taught in the Continuing Education and LiteratureDepartments of the University of Essex; LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY is Professor of Medieval Literature at Swansea University.

Contributors: Diana Denissen, Clare Dowding, Clarck Drieshen, Cate Gunn, Catherine Innes-Parker, E.A. Jones, Dorothy Kim, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Godelinde Perk, James Plumtree, Michelle Sauer, Sophie Sawicka-Sykes, Andrew Thornton OSB,

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787440296
• Artikelnr.: 56248623

Autorenporträt

Cate Gunn, Liz Herbert McAvoy

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Liz Herbert McAvoy and Cate Gunn 'O Sely Ankir!' - E.A.
Jones 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 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 anniversaries 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 Dowding The
Curious Incident of the Hermit in Fisherton - James Plumtree Was Julian's
nightmare a Mare? Julian of Norwich and the Vernacular Community of
Storytellers - Godelinde Gertrude Perk Anchoritic Textual Communities and
the Wooing Group Prayers - Catherine Innes-Parker The Anchoress
Transformed: On wel swuðe 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 Bibliography
Index