Medieval Anchoritisms
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Medieval Anchoritisms
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Author : Liz Herbert McAvoy
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2011
Medieval Anchoritisms written by Liz Herbert McAvoy and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages.
Anchoritism In The Middle Ages
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Author : Catherine Innes-Parker
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2013-04-30
Anchoritism In The Middle Ages written by Catherine Innes-Parker and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with Religion categories.
This volume explores medieval anchoritism (the life of a solitary religious recluse) from a variety of perspectives. The individual essays conceive anchoritism in broadly interpretive categories: challenging perceived notions of the very concept of anchoritic 'rule' and guidance; studying the interaction between language and linguistic forms; addressing the connection between anchoritism and other forms of solitude (particularly in European tales of sanctity); and exploring the influence of anchoritic literature on lay devotion. As a whole, the volume illuminates the richness and fluidity of anchoritic texts and contexts and shows how anchoritism pervaded the spirituality of the Middle Ages, for lay and religious alike. It moves through both space and time, ranging from the third century to the sixteenth, from England to the Continent and back.
Reading Medieval Anchoritism
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Author : Mari Hughes-Edwards
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2012-06-15
Reading Medieval Anchoritism written by Mari Hughes-Edwards and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-15 with Religion categories.
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.
Reading Medieval Anchoritism
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Author : Mari Hughes-Edwards
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2012-06-15
Reading Medieval Anchoritism written by Mari Hughes-Edwards and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-15 with Religion categories.
Medieval anchorites willingly embraced the most extreme form of solitude known to the medieval world, so they might forge a closer connection with God. Yet to be physically enclosed within the same four walls for life required strength far beyond most medieval Christians. This book explores the English anchoritic guides which were written, revised and translated, throughout the Middle Ages, to enable recluses to come to terms with the enormity of their choices. The book explores five centuries of the guides’ negotiations of four anchoritic ideals: enclosure, solitude, chastity and orthodoxy, and of two vital anchoritic spiritual practices: asceticism and contemplative experience. It explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, revealing it as the site of potential intellectual exchange and spiritual growth.
Seeing Sodomy In The Middle Ages
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Author : Robert Mills
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-02-27
Seeing Sodomy In The Middle Ages written by Robert Mills and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with Art categories.
Challenging the view that ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form in the Middle Ages, the author demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period - and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took.
Women S Literary Cultures In The Global Middle Ages
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Author : Kathryn Loveridge
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2023
Women S Literary Cultures In The Global Middle Ages written by Kathryn Loveridge and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with History categories.
Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries. Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, medieval women's writing has been the subject of energetic conversation and debate. This interest, however, has focused predominantly on western European writers working within the Christian tradition: the Saxon visionaries, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Gertrude the Great, for example, and, in England, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe are cases in point. While this present book acknowledges the huge importance of such writers to women's literary history, it also argues that they should no longer be read solely within a local context. Instead, by putting them into conversation with other literary women and their cultures from wider geographical regions and global cultures - women from eastern Europe and their books, dramas and music; the Welsh gwraig llwyn a pherth (woman of bush and brake); the Indian mystic, Mirabai; Japanese women writers from the Heian period; women saints from across Christian Europe and those of eleventh-century Islam or late medieval Ethiopia; for instance - much more is to be gained in terms of our understanding of the drivers behind and expressions of medieval women's literary activities in far broader contexts. This volume considers the dialogue, synergies, contracts and resonances emerging from such new alignments, and to help a wider, multidirectional development of this enquiry into women's literary cultures.
Middle English Devotional Compilations
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Author : Diana Denissen
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2019-10-15
Middle English Devotional Compilations written by Diana Denissen and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with History categories.
The book offers a new perspective on late medieval compiling activity. Additionally, it offers a more nuanced perspective on late medieval religious culture in England. Lastly, it examines three major, but understudied Middle English texts in depth: the Pore Caitif, The Tretyse of Love and A Talkyng of the Love of God.
Women And Devotional Literature In The Middle Ages
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Author : Cate Gunn
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2023
Women And Devotional Literature In The Middle Ages written by Cate Gunn and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker. Silence was a much-lauded concept in the Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature directed at women. Based on the Pauline prescription that women should neither preach nor teach, and should at all times keep speech to a minimum, the concept of silence lay at the forefront of many devotional texts, particularly those associated with various forms of women's religious enclosure. Following the example of the Virgin Mary, religious women were exhorted to speak seldom, and then only seriously and devoutly. However, as this volume shows, such gendered exhortations to silence were often more rhetorical than literal. The contributions range widely: they consider the English 'Wooing Group' texts and female-authored visionary writings from the Saxon nunnery of Helfta in the thirteenth century; works by Richard Rolle and the Dutch mystic Jan van Ruusbroec in the fourteenth century; Anglo-French treatises, and books housed in the library of the English noblewoman Cecily Neville in the fifteenth century; and the resonant poetics of women from non-Christian cultures. But all demonstrate the ways in which silence, rather than being a mere absence of speech, frequently comprised a form of gendered articulation and proto-feminist point of resistance. They thus provide an apt commemoration and celebration of the deeply innovative work of Catherine Innes-Parker (1956-2019), the respected feminist scholar and a pioneer of this important field of study.
Middle Aged Women In The Middle Ages
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Author : Sue Niebrzydowski
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2011
Middle Aged Women In The Middle Ages written by Sue Niebrzydowski and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Family & Relationships categories.
The phenomenon of medieval women's middle age is a stage in the lifecycle that has been frequently overlooked in preference for the examination of female youth and old age. The essays collected here draw variously from literary studies, history, law, art and theology in order to address this lacuna.
Religious Men And Masculine Identity In The Middle Ages
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Author : P. H. Cullum
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2013
Religious Men And Masculine Identity In The Middle Ages written by P. H. Cullum and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.