Medieval anchoritisms
Subtitle: gender, space and the solitary life
By: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages -- v. 6; Gender in the Middle Ages -- v. 6.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781843842774
Subjects: History; Women and religion; Hermits; Women hermits; Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Miles Christi : early anchoritic masculinity and the sacred; title: Videte vocacionem vestram : late-medieval male anchoritism and the spectral feminine; title: Writing the flesh : female anchoritism and the master narrative; title: Reading with the eyes closed : revising the master narrative; title: Mapping the anchorhold : anchorites, borderlands and liminal spaces.