Reading Medieval Anchoritism
Ideology and Spiritual Practices| By: | Mari Hughes-Edwards |
| Publisher: | Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic |
| Print ISBN: | 9781783165155 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780708325063 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2012 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange, and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieval world.