Author: Bella Millett
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Category : Ancren riwle
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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The thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse is one of the major works of early Middle English prose, and was repeatedly revised and adapted for different audiences. It has attracted much attention from students of church history and women's studies as a highly influential, important example of pastoral guidance for women religions. This is the first edition to bring together the full manuscript evidence, and to set it in its broader cultural and institutional context.
Author: Bella Millett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197223284
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The early thirteenth century-guide for women recluses, Ancrene Wisse, is not only the major surviving work of early Middle English prose, and one which was influential throughout the medieval period; it was an important document in the history of European pastoral literature.
Author: Bella Millett
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859914291
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Bibliography of prose works offering unique evidence for the nature of women's religious experience in medieval England, with scholarly introduction.
Author: Anne Savage
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809132577
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Sometime in the first quarter of the 13th century a number of works were written for anchoresses, women who lived as religious recluses in cells adjoining churches. The most influential is Ancrene Wisse (A Guide for Anchoresses), which discusses in great detail the daily life of the anchoress, both outer and inner. This work gives a detailed sense of a powerful and multi-faceted spirituality different from that of other mystics.
Author: Bella Millett
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198119975
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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The Ancrene Wisse, a guide for female recluses written in the West Midlands in the early thirteenth century, and the closely related religious works of the `Katherine Group', offer a vivid insight into the religious life of the time, and their rich and varied prose style blends Latin and native English stylistic traditions with remarkable skill and assurance. The difficulty of their language, however, has made them largely inaccessible except to experts in Middle English, and this edition is designed to introduce them to a wider audience, including undergraduates with limited experience of Middle English and specialists in other disciplines, particularly history, theology, and women's studies. It provides a representative selection (the last two parts of Ancrene Wisse, and three complete works from the Katherine Group, Hali Meithhad, Sawles Warde, and Seinte Margarete) in new and readable critical texts, with a general introduction, notes, a select glossary, and interleavedtranslations.
Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843835207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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An examination of the growth and different varieties of anchoritism throughout medieval Europe.
Author: Bella Millett
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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A new annotated translation of the early thirteenth century guide for women religious recluses, designed to accompany the recent and definitive Middle English text published by the Early English Text Society. The introduction sets the work in its context, asking why, when and where it was produced, as well as what the institutional background of its male author may have been. It emphasises the radical nature of the work with its vision of pastoral reform, its dismissive tone in relation to conventional monasticism, and its promotion of a vernacular spirituality.
Author: Robert Hasenfratz
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580444261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Ancrene Wisse or the Anchoresses Guide (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402), written sometime roughly between 1225 and 1240, represents a revision of an earlier work, usually called the Ancrene Riwle or Anchorites' Rule, a book of religious instruction for three lay women of noble birth.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1370
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Author: Hugh White
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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