Complex sentence: By the early thirteenth century, it was considered distinctly from hermits--while the hermit vocation allowed for a change of location, the anchorite were bound to one place of enclosure, generally a cell connected to a church.
Split into simpler sentences: By the early thirteenth century, it was considered distinct from hermits. The hermit vocation permitted a change of location, whereas the anchorites were bound to one place of enclosure, generally a cell connected to a church.