The Hermits and Anchorites of England
Author: Rotha Mary Clay
Publisher: Detroit : Singing Tree Press
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 368
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Author: Rotha Mary Clay
Publisher: Detroit : Singing Tree Press
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. A. Jones
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781526127228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis source book offers a comprehensive treatment of the solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It covers both enclosed anchorites or recluses and freely-wandering hermits, and explores the relation between them. The sources selected for the volume are designed to complement better-known works connected with the solitary lives, such as the anchoritic guide Ancrene Wisse, or St Aelred of Rievaulx's rule for his sister; or late medieval mystical authors including the hermit Richard Rolle or the anchorite Julian of Norwich. They illustrate the range of solitary lives that were possible in late medieval England, practical considerations around questions of material support, prescribed ideals of behaviour, and spiritual aspiration. It also covers the mechanisms and structures that were put in place by both civil and religious authorities to administer and regulate the vocations. Coverage extends into the Reformation period to include evidence for the fate of solitaries during the dissolutions and their aftermath. The material selected includes visual sources, such as manuscript illustrations, architectural plans and photographs of standing remains, as well as excerpts from texts. Most of the latter are translated here for the first time, and a significant proportion are taken from previously unpublished sources.-- publisher.
Author: Rotha Mary Clay
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 410
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2019-01-18
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1526133385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It covers both enclosed recluses (anchorites) and free-wandering hermits, and explores the relationship between them. Although there has been a recent surge of interest in the solitary vocations, especially anchorites, this has focused almost exclusively on a small number of examples. The field is in need of reinvigoration, and this book provides it. Featuring translated extracts from a wide range of Latin, Middle English and Old French sources, as well as a scholarly introduction and commentary from one of the foremost experts in the field, Hermits and anchorites in England is an invaluable resource for students and lecturers alike.
Author: Tom Licence
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199674091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTom Licence discovers why medieval society invested so much in hermits and recluses, and examines how they gained their saintly reputation.
Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1843835207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the growth and different varieties of anchoritism throughout medieval Europe.
Author: Cate Gunn
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781843844624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays challenging the orthodox opinion of anchorites as entirely divorced from the world around them.
Author: Dee Dyas
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781843840497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays suggesting new ways of studying the crucial but sometimes difficult range of medieval mystical material. This volume seeks to explore the origins, context and content of the anchoritic and mystical texts produced in England during the Middle Ages and to examine the ways in which these texts may be studied and taught today. It foregrounds issues of context and interaction, seeking both to position medieval spiritual writings against a surprisingly wide range of contemporary contexts and to face the challenge of making these texts accessible to a wider readership. The contributions, by leading scholars in the field, incorporate historical, literary and theological perspectives and offer critical approaches and background material which will inform both research and teaching. The approaches to Middle English anchoritic and mystical texts suggested in this volume are many and varied. In this they reflect the richness and complexity of the contexts from which these writings emerged. These essays are offered aspart of an ongoing exploration of aspects of medieval spirituality which, while posing a considerable challenge to modern readers, also offer invaluable insights into the interaction between medieval culture and belief. Contributors: E.A. Jones, Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, Santha Bhattachariji, Denis Renevey, A.C. Spearing, Thomas Bestul, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Barry A. Windeatt, Alexandra Barratt, R.S. Allen, Roger Ellis, Ann M. Hutchison, Marion Glasscoe, Catherine Innes-Parker
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-09-16
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9004408339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons. Drawing from a reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, each contributor shows how individual poets, ecclesiasts, legists, and institutions claimed Anglo-Saxon predecessors for rhetorical purposes in response to social, cultural, and linguistic change. Contributors trouble simple definitions of identity and period, exploring how medieval authors looked to earlier periods of history to define social identities and make claims for their present moment based on the political fiction of an imagined community of a single, distinct nation unified in identity by descent and religion. Contributors are Cynthia Turner Camp, Irina Dumitrescu, Jay Paul Gates, Erin Michelle Goeres, Mary Kate Hurley, Maren Clegg Hyer, Nicole Marafioti, Brian O’Camb, Kathleen Smith, Carla María Thomas, Larissa Tracy, and Eric Weiskott. See inside the book.
Author: Michael Staunton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2001-12-07
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780719054556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the eye-witness and contemporary biographical accounts, this book provides valuable insight into the late-12th century world. The extracts, many previously untranslated, expose one of the most controversial figures of the Middle Ages. Written as the shock of Becket's murder in 1170 reverberated around Europe, the accounts provide vivid testimony to the most dramatic events of his life. They show how he became champion of the church and enemy of the king, fled into exile to lead a life of asceticism and political agitation, and returned to face martyrdom before the altar of his own cathedral.