Author: Yoko Wada
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843842432
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise.
A Companion to Ancrene Wisse
Author: Yoko Wada
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843842432
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843842432
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise.
Anchoritic Spirituality
Author: Anne Savage
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809132577
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Sometime in the first quarter of the 13th century a number of works were written for anchoresses, women who lived as religious recluses in cells adjoining churches. The most influential is Ancrene Wisse (A Guide for Anchoresses), which discusses in great detail the daily life of the anchoress, both outer and inner. This work gives a detailed sense of a powerful and multi-faceted spirituality different from that of other mystics.
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809132577
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Sometime in the first quarter of the 13th century a number of works were written for anchoresses, women who lived as religious recluses in cells adjoining churches. The most influential is Ancrene Wisse (A Guide for Anchoresses), which discusses in great detail the daily life of the anchoress, both outer and inner. This work gives a detailed sense of a powerful and multi-faceted spirituality different from that of other mystics.
The Solitary Self
Author: Linda Georgianna
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674817517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Ancrene Wisse is a spiritual guide for female recluses, written at the request of three anchoresses who were voluntarily enclosed for life within small cells. Georgianna analyzes this complex and skillfully composed treatise and examines its detailed portrayal of the rich, alternately rewarding and frustrating inner life of the solitary.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674817517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Ancrene Wisse is a spiritual guide for female recluses, written at the request of three anchoresses who were voluntarily enclosed for life within small cells. Georgianna analyzes this complex and skillfully composed treatise and examines its detailed portrayal of the rich, alternately rewarding and frustrating inner life of the solitary.
Ancrene Wisse
Author: Hugh White
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Ancrene Riwle
The Ancren Riwle
Author: James Morton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ancren riwle
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ancren riwle
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
A Companion to Ancrene Wisse
Author: Yoko Wada
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859917629
Category : Ancren riwle
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The 13th century 'Ancrene Wisse' is a guide for female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth, it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do, thereby offering a glimpse of what life was really like for Englishwomen in the middle ages.
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859917629
Category : Ancren riwle
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The 13th century 'Ancrene Wisse' is a guide for female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth, it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do, thereby offering a glimpse of what life was really like for Englishwomen in the middle ages.
The Ancren Riwle
Author: James Morton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, English (Middle)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian literature, English (Middle)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Writing Religious Women
Author: Christiania Whitehead
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802084033
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This collection of commissioned essays explores women's vernacular theology through a wide range of medieval prose and verse texts, from saints' lives to visionary literature. Employing a historicist methodology, the essays are sited at the intersection of two discursive fields: female spiritual practice and female textual practice. The contributors are primarily interested in the relation of women to religious books, as writers, receivers, and as objects of representation. They focus on historical approaches to the question of women's spirituality, and generically unrestricted examinations of issues of female literacy, book ownership, and reading practice. The essays are grouped under four main themes: the influence of anchoritic spirituality upon later lay piety, Carthusian links with female spirituality, the representation of femininity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English religious poetry, and veneration, performance and delusion in the Book of Margery Kempe.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802084033
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This collection of commissioned essays explores women's vernacular theology through a wide range of medieval prose and verse texts, from saints' lives to visionary literature. Employing a historicist methodology, the essays are sited at the intersection of two discursive fields: female spiritual practice and female textual practice. The contributors are primarily interested in the relation of women to religious books, as writers, receivers, and as objects of representation. They focus on historical approaches to the question of women's spirituality, and generically unrestricted examinations of issues of female literacy, book ownership, and reading practice. The essays are grouped under four main themes: the influence of anchoritic spirituality upon later lay piety, Carthusian links with female spirituality, the representation of femininity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English religious poetry, and veneration, performance and delusion in the Book of Margery Kempe.
Middle English Devotional Compilations
Author: Diana Denissen
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786834774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Middle English devotional compilations – consisting of a series of texts or extracts of texts that have intentionally been put together to constitute new and unified devotional texts – have often been approached as complex collections of source texts that need to be linked with their originals. This book argues that the study of compilations should move beyond the disentanglement of their sources. It approaches compiling as a literary activity and an active way of shaping the medieval text, with the aim to nuance scholarly discussion about compiling by putting greater emphasis on the literary instead of the technical aspects of compiling activity. In addition to describing the additions, omissions and other types of adaptations that compilers made to their source texts, Middle English Devotional Compilations highlights the nature and function of compiling activity in late medieval England, and examines three major but understudied Middle English devotional compilations in depth: The Pore Caitif, The Tretyse of Love and A Talkyng of the Love of God.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786834774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Middle English devotional compilations – consisting of a series of texts or extracts of texts that have intentionally been put together to constitute new and unified devotional texts – have often been approached as complex collections of source texts that need to be linked with their originals. This book argues that the study of compilations should move beyond the disentanglement of their sources. It approaches compiling as a literary activity and an active way of shaping the medieval text, with the aim to nuance scholarly discussion about compiling by putting greater emphasis on the literary instead of the technical aspects of compiling activity. In addition to describing the additions, omissions and other types of adaptations that compilers made to their source texts, Middle English Devotional Compilations highlights the nature and function of compiling activity in late medieval England, and examines three major but understudied Middle English devotional compilations in depth: The Pore Caitif, The Tretyse of Love and A Talkyng of the Love of God.