A Companion to Ancrene Wisse
A Companion to Ancrene Wisse

Author: Yoko Wada

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1843842432

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Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise.

Anchoritic Spirituality
Anchoritic Spirituality

Author: Anne Savage

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780809132577

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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.

The Ancrene Riwle
The Ancrene Riwle

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Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Translation of the Middle English manual "Ancrene Riwle" ("Rule for Anchoresses"), which was composed between 1225 and 1240 for the spiritual instruction of women. This edition contains an introduction by Dom Gerard Sitwell and a preface by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Ancrene Wisse
Ancrene Wisse

Author: Robert Hasenfratz

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2001-03-01

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 1580444261

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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.