Approaching medieval English anchoritic and mystical texts
By: edited by Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, Roger Ellis.
Contributors: Dyas, Dee.; Edden, Valerie.; Ellis, Roger, 1943 May 16-.
Series: Christianity and culture
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism.; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- England -- History and criticism.; Mysticism -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Hermits -- England.; Christian literature, English (Middle) -- Study and teaching.; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- England -- Study and teaching.; Mysticism -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Study and teaching.; Hermits -- England -- Study and teaching.
Description: "Essays suggesting new ways of studying the crucial but sometimes difficult range of medieval mystical material"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Anchorites and hermits in historical context / Eddie Jones; title: "Wildernesse is anlich lif of ancre wununge" : the wilderness and medieval anchoritic spirituality / Dee Dyas; title: The devotional life of the laity in the late Middle Ages / Valerie Edden; title: Medieval contemplation and mystical experience / Santha Bhattacharji; title: Richard Rolle / Denis Renevey; title: Language and its limits : The cloud of unknowing and Pearl / A.C. Spearling; title: Walter Hilton / Thomas H. Bestul; title: "Be thou, to whom this booke shall come" : Julian of Norwich and her audience, past, present and future / Liz Herbert-McAvoy; title: "I use but comownycacyon and good wordys" : teaching and the book of Margery Kempe / Barry Windeatt; title: Teaching anchoritic texts : the shock of the old / Alexandra Barratt; title: Appendix : The rule of a recluse, from MS Bodley 423; title: Introducing the mystics / R.S. Allen; title: Holy fictions : another approach to the Middle English mystics / Roger Ellis; title: Women mystics / Ann M. Hutchison; title: Contexts for teaching Julian of Norwich / Marion Glasscoe; title: Appendix : "Stond wel, moder, under rode".