Rhetoric of the anchorhold
Subtitle: space, place, and body within the discourses of enclosure
By: edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy.
Contributors: Herbert McAvoy, Liz.
Series: Religion & culture in the Middle Ages
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cardiff
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780708321300
Subjects: Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism; Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Hermits
Description: "Rhetoric of the Anchorhold: Space, Place and Body within the Discourses of Enclosure focuses on the type of religious reclusion in England commonly known as anchoritic enclosure, a phenomenon that reached its height of popularity, particularly for women, in the later Middle Ages. It examines from a number of different perspectives this extraordinary way of life whereby both men and women adopted voluntary, permanent and solitary enclosure, often in a small cell attached to a parish church, in both rural and urban locations."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-219) and index.