Anchoritic Spirituality
Subtitle: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Works (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Mahwah N.J.
Published: September 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780809104499
Subjects: Christianity; Religious Literature; Missions & Missionary Work; Specific Religious Congregations And Orders; Rules; Religion - Church Life; Religion; Modernized versions; Institutions & Organizations; English prose literature; Religious life; Spirituality - General; Early works to 1800; England; Hermits; 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.