Medieval anchoritisms: gender, space and the solitary life
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 increa...
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Suffolk
Boydell & Brewer
2011.
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| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
B Hermit / History 1100-1500 / Hermitess |
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Women and religion (Europe)
History To 1500
B Hermits (Europe) History To 1500 B Europe Church history 600-1500 B Women hermits ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 B Europe ; Church history ; 600-1500 B Europe Church history 600-1500 B Hermits Europe History To 1500 B Women and religion ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 B Women and religion Europe History To 1500 B Women hermits Europe History To 1500 B Women hermits (Europe) History To 1500 B Hermits ; Europe ; History ; To 1500 |
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| Summary: | 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 Miles Christi : early anchoritic masculinity and the sacred -- Videte vocacionem vestram : late-medieval male anchoritism and the spectral feminine -- Writing the flesh : female anchoritism and the master narrative -- Reading with the eyes closed : revising the master narrative -- Mapping the anchorhold : anchorites, borderlands and liminal spaces |
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| ISBN: | 1846157927 |