Anchoritic Spirituality
Subtitle: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Works (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Publisher: Mahwah N.J.
Published: September 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780809132577
Subjects: Christianity; Religious life; Missions & Missionary Work; Hermits; Spirituality - General; Religion - Church Life; Religion; Modernized versions; Christian Ministry - Missions; Institutions & Organizations; English prose literature; Rules; Early works to 1800; England; Middle English, 1100-1500; Monasticism and religious orders for women
First sentence: Among the small number of manuscripts written in English that have come down to us from the thirteenth century, one group of six, copied between about 1225 and about 1250, commands particular attention.