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Medieval Anchorites in Their Communities
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Cate Gunn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: D.S. Brewer

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Essays challenging the orthodox opinion of anchorites as entirely divorced from the world around them.
Hermits and Anchorites in England, 1200-1550
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: E. A. Jones
Categories: England
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

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This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of the solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It covers both enclosed anchorites or recl
A Revelation of Purgatory
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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Translation and facing text of an important female-authored work from the late middle ages.
Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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An examination of the growth and different varieties of anchoritism throughout medieval Europe.
Reading Medieval Anchoritism
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Mari Hughes-Edwards
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-15 - Publisher: University of Wales Press

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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 t