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Author : Hugh White
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016311701
Author : Cate Gunn
Publisher : University of Wales
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708320341
An introduction to 'Ancrene Wisse', one of the most important works in English of the 13th century. It offers a new contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages.
Author : Anne Savage,Nicholas Watson
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809132575
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.
Author : Yoko Wada
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842439
Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise.
Author : Krista A. Murchison
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781843846086
First comprehensive survey of a major genre of medieval English texts: its purpose, characteristics, and reception.The "bestseller list" of medieval England would have included many manuals for penitents: works that could teach the public about the process of confession, and explain the abstract concept of sin through familiar situations. Among these 'bestselling' works were the Manuel des péchés (commonly known through its English translation Handlyng Synne), The Speculum Vitae, and Chaucer's Parson's Tale. This book is the first full-length overview of this body of writing and its material and social contexts. It shows that while manuals for penitents developed under the Church's control, they also became a site of the Church's concern. Manuals such as the Compileison (which was addressed to a much broader audience than its English analogue, Ancrene Wisse) brought learning that had been controlled by the Church into the hands of layfolk and, in so doing, raised significant concerns over who should have access to knowledge. Clerics worried that these manuals might accidentally teach people new sins, remind them of old ones, or become sites of prurient interest. This finding, and others explored in this book, call for a new awareness of the complications and contradictions inherent in late medieval orthodoxy and reveal plainly that even writing that happened firmly within the Church's control could promote new and complex ways of thinking about religion and the self.cess to knowledge. Clerics worried that these manuals might accidentally teach people new sins, remind them of old ones, or become sites of prurient interest. This finding, and others explored in this book, call for a new awareness of the complications and contradictions inherent in late medieval orthodoxy and reveal plainly that even writing that happened firmly within the Church's control could promote new and complex ways of thinking about religion and the self.cess to knowledge. Clerics worried that these manuals might accidentally teach people new sins, remind them of old ones, or become sites of prurient interest. This finding, and others explored in this book, call for a new awareness of the complications and contradictions inherent in late medieval orthodoxy and reveal plainly that even writing that happened firmly within the Church's control could promote new and complex ways of thinking about religion and the self.cess to knowledge. Clerics worried that these manuals might accidentally teach people new sins, remind them of old ones, or become sites of prurient interest. This finding, and others explored in this book, call for a new awareness of the complications and contradictions inherent in late medieval orthodoxy and reveal plainly that even writing that happened firmly within the Church's control could promote new and complex ways of thinking about religion and the self.
Author : Linda Georgianna
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674817516
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.
Author : Bella Millett
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859914291
Bibliography of prose works offering unique evidence for the nature of women's religious experience in medieval England, with scholarly introduction.
Author : A. C. Baugh
Publisher : Early English Text Society
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859919471
Author : Robert Hasenfratz
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580444262
Ancrene Wisse or the Anchoresses Guide (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402), written sometime roughly between 1225 and 1240, represents a revision of an earlier work, usually called the Ancrene Riwle or Anchorites' Rule, a book of religious instruction for three lay women of noble birth.
Author : Ancren riwle,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Monasticism and religious orders
ISBN : OCLC:225286343
Author : Elizabeth Ann Robertson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0870496417
After the NOrman conquest, women and the lower classes became the primary audiences for English, as opposed to Latin or French, literature. Among the works written for female audiences are the hitherto neglected AB texts: three female saints' lives, a tract on virginity, a homily, and a guide for anchoresses. In this lucid, innovative study, Elizabeth Robertson shows that the AB texts were written in an effective experiential style that distinguished them from other spiritual works of the period.Key characteristics of this special style--nonteleological structre, pervasive use of concrete imagery, and thematic focus on the female body--have been viewed by some as hallmarks of women's writing more generally. Combining feminist theory with critical skill and an impressive command of Old and Middle English materials, the author argues, to the contrary, that in the thirteenth-century England this style was created by educated male writers in accord with their beliefs about nature and needs of marginal social groups.Beginning with the history and motivations of female anchorites and surveying medieval philosophy and theology in relation to gender theory, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the AB texts and then details their debt to earlier English vernacular works and to the continental theological movements that increasingly emphasized physical experience and matter. The result is an exciting, learned account of the feminization of early English prose.
Author : Mari Hughes-Edwards
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780708325063
This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange, and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieval world.
Author : Bella Millett
Publisher : Early English Text Society
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106019592986
An influential thirteenth-century English guide for women recluses, this is a key text for studies of women's spirituality in the Middle Ages. This is the first edition based on full manuscript evidence and concludes the edition begun in 2005, EETS O.S. 325.
Author : Mary Carpenter Erler,Maryanne Kowaleski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0801488303
A new economy of power relations: female agency in the middle ages / Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski -- Women and power through the family revisited / Jo Ann McNamara -- Women and confession: from empowerment to pathology / Dyan Elliott -- "With the heat of the hungry heart": empowerment and Ancrene wisse / Nicholas Watson -- Powers of record, powers of example: hagiography and women's history / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne -- Who is the master of this narrative? Maternal patronage of the cult of St. Margaret / Wendy R. Larson -- "The wise mother": the image of St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary / Pamela Sheingorn -- Did goddesses empower women? the case of dame nature / Barbara Newman -- Women in the late medieval English parish / Katherine L. French -- Public exposure? consorts and ritual in late medieval Europe: the example of the entrance of the dogaresse of Venice / Holly S. Hurlburt -- Women's influence on the design of urban homes / Sarah Rees Jones -- Looking closely: authority and intimacy in the late medieval urban home / Felicity Riddy.
Author : Robert J. Hasenfratz
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113309731
Ancrene Wisse or the Anchoresses Guide (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402), written sometime roughly between 1225 and 1240, represents a revision of an earlier work, usually called the Ancrene Riwle or Anchorites' Rule, a book of religious instruction for three lay women of noble birth.
