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Medieval Anchoritisms

Gender, Space and the Solitary Life

by Liz Herbert McAvoy

  • Hardback
  • 211 pages
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • 15.5 x 23.7 x 2.3 cm

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Originating in the deserts of northern Africa in the early years of Christianity, anchoritism, or the enclosed solitary life, gradually metamorphosed into a permanent characteristic of European religiosity; from the twelfth century onwards, and throughout the middle ages, it was embraced with increasing enthusiasm, by devoted laywomen in particular. This book investigates the wider cultural importance of medieval anchoritism within the different religious landscapes and climates of the period. Drawing upon a range of contemporary gender and spatial theories, it focuses on the gender dynamics of this remarkable way of life, and the material spaces which they generated and within which they operated. As such, it unites related - but too often discrete - areas of scholarship, including early Christian anchoritism, anchoritic guidance texts and associated works, fourteenth and fifteenth-century holy women with close anchoritic connections, and a range of other less known works dealing with or connected to the anchoritic life. Dr LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY is Senior Lecturer in Gender in English and Medieval Studies at Swansea University
Medieval Anchoritisms and A Companion to Julian of Norwich
A Companion to Julian of NorwichMedieval Anchoritisms

  • Author

    Liz Herbert McAvoy

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Boydell & Brewer Ltd

  • Published

    August 2011

  • Weight

    510g

  • Page Count

    211

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781843842774

  • ISBN-10

    1843842777

  • Eden Code

    4031517

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