Title: Rhetoric of the anchorhold
Description: "Rhetoric of the Anchorhold: Space, Place and Body within the Discourses of Enclosure focuses on the type of religious reclusion in England commonly known as anchoritic enclosure, a phenomenon that reached its height of popularity, particularly for women, in the later Middle Ages. It examines from a number of different perspectives this extraordinary way of life whereby both men and women adopted voluntary, permanent and solitary enclosure, often in a small cell attached to a parish church, in both rural and urban locations."--Jacket.
Subjects: Mysticism, History, History and criticism, Christian literature, English (Middle), Hermits, Christian literature, history and criticism, Mysticism, middle ages, 600-1500
Time periods: Middle Ages, 600-1500