A companion to Ancrene wisse
By: edited by Yoko Wada.
Contributors: Wada, Yoko.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Ancren riwle.; Monasticism and religious orders for women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Monastic and religious life of women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism.; Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Recluses in literature.; Solitude in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is Ancrene wisse? / Yoko Wada; title: The genre of Ancrene wisse / Bella Millett; title: The communal authorship of Ancrene wisse / Anne Savage; title: The AB language : the recluse, the gossip and the language historian / Richard Dance; title: The Anglo-French lexis of Ancrene wisse : a re-evaluation / D.A. Trotter; title: The Middle English manuscripts and early readers of Ancrene wisse / A.S.G. Edwards; title: Savoring 'science' : the medieval anchoress reads the Ancrene wisse / Elizabeth Robertson; title: The legacy of Ancrene wisse : translations, adaptations, influences and audience, with special attention to women readers / Catherine Innes-Parker; title: The recluse and its readers : some observations on a lollard interpolated version of Ancrene wisse / Christina von Nolcken; title: Ancrene wisse, religious reform and the late Middle Ages / Nicholas Watson; title: Ancrene wisse and the identities of Mary Salome / Roger Dahood.