The Anchoress

Author : Robyn Cadwallader
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571313334

Get Book

The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader Pdf

England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring seven paces by nine, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world, with all its dangers, desires and temptations, and to commit herself to a life of prayer and service to God. But as she slowly begins to understand, even the thick, unforgiving walls of her cell cannot keep the outside world away, and it is soon clear that Sarah's body and soul are still in great danger... Robyn Cadwallader's powerful debut novel tells an absorbing story of faith, desire, shame, fear and the very human need for connection and touch. With a poetic intelligence, Cadwallader explores the relationship between the mind, body and spirit in Medieval England in a story that will hold the reader in a spell until the very last page.

Author : Julian (of Norwich)
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 0888440359

Get Book

A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich by Julian (of Norwich) Pdf

Author : Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812202861

Get Book

Lives of the Anchoresses by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker Pdf

In cities and towns across northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman took up authoritative positions in society, all the while living as public recluses in cells attached to the sides of churches. In Lives of the Anchoresses, Anneke Mulder-Bakker offers a new history of these women who chose to forsake the world but did not avoid it. Unlike nuns, anchoresses maintained their ties to society and belonged to no formal religious order. From their solitary anchorholds in very public places, they acted as teachers and counselors and, in some cases, theological innovators for parishioners who would speak to them from the street, through small openings in the walls of their cells. Available at all hours, the anchoresses were ready to care for the community's faithful whenever needed. Through careful biographical studies of five emblematic anchoresses, Mulder-Bakker reveals the details of these influential religious women. The life of the unnamed anchoress who was mother to Guibert of Nogent shows the anchoress's role as a spiritual guide in an oral culture. A study of Yvette of Huy shows the myriad possibilities open to one woman who eventually chose the life of an anchoress. The accounts of Juliana of Cornillon and Eve of St. Martin raise questions about the participation of religious women in theological discussions and their contributions to church liturgy. And the biographical study of Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg explores the anchoress's role as day-to-day religious instructor to the ordinary faithful.

Author : Patricia Mary Vinje
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Devotional literature
ISBN : UOM:39015001739880

Get Book

An Understanding of Love According to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich by Patricia Mary Vinje Pdf

Author : Paul Moorcraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1464200513

Get Book

Anchoress of Shere by Paul Moorcraft Pdf

In 1329, a beautiful Surrey woman is walled up alive in a village church. The Anchoress' story is taken up late in this century by a deranged Catholic priest. Gradually, two separate sagas unfold: the world of the Middle Ages centered on the woman's entombment, and the 1967 abduction of a young woman.

Author : Julian (of Norwich)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Devotional literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005701599

Get Book

A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich by Julian (of Norwich) Pdf

Author : Julian (of Norwich)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Devotional literature
ISBN : UOM:39015026942253

Get Book

A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich: The long text, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index by Julian (of Norwich) Pdf

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135677817

Get Book

The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages by Albrecht Classen Pdf

The computer revolution is upon us. The future of books and of reading are debated. Will there be books in the next millennium? Will we still be reading? As uncertain as the answers to these questions might be, as clear is the message about the value of the book expressed by medieval writers. The contributors to the volume The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages explore the significance of the written document as the key icon of a whole era. Both philosophers and artists, both poets and clerics wholeheartedly subscribed to the notion that reading and writing represented essential epistemological tools for spiritual, political, religious, and philosophical quests. To gain a deeper understanding of the cultural significance of the medieval book, the contributors to this volume examine pertinent statements by medieval philosophers and French, German, English, Spanish, and Italian poets.

Author : Thomas Matus
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809137925

Get Book

Nazarena by Thomas Matus Pdf

"In this book, Thomas Matus tells the true story of one woman's struggle to live her extraordinary vocation to a life of total silence, solitude and hiddenness. A gifted musician and ordinary Sunday Catholic, Nazarena, nee Julia Crotta, had a vision of Jesus calling her to the desert while in college in Connecticut. After much searching and numerous attempts to have her unique vocation recognized by the church, she eventually found her "desert" in a small room at the monastery of the Camaldolese Benedictine nuns in Rome. She lived there as an anchoress for forty-five years until her death in 1990." "Radical yet traditional, exceptional yet simple, Sister Nazarena had a long and spiritually fruitful ascetic life. Nazarena, an American Anchoress uses excerpts from her own letters of spiritual counseling and material taken from interviews with those who knew her to tell the remarkable story of her life of silence and prayer."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Kevin Magill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134236992

Get Book

Julian of Norwich by Kevin Magill Pdf

Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred around the crucified Christ. Twenty years later, while living as an anchoress in a church, she is believed to have set out these visions in a text called the Showing of Love. Going against the current trend to place Julian in the category of mystic - a classification which defines her visions as deeply private, psychological events - this book sets Julian’s thinking in the context of a visionary project used to instruct the Christian community. Drawing on recent developments in philosophy that debate the objectivity and rationality of vision and perception, Kevin J. Magill gives full attention to the depth and richness of the visual language and modes of perception in the Showing of Love. In particular, the book focuses on the ways in which Julian presented her vision to the Christian society around her, demonstrating the educative potential of interaction between the ‘isolated’ anchoress and the wider community. Challenging Julian’s identification as a mystic and solitary female writer, this book argues that Julian engaged in a variety of educative methods – oral, visual, conversational, mnemonic, alliterative – that extend the usefulness of her text.

Author : Catherine Innes-Parker
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781460405185

Get Book

The Wooing of Our Lord and The Wooing Group Prayers by Catherine Innes-Parker Pdf

The Wooing of Our Lord and the Wooing Group prayers occupy a key position in the history of English literature and the development of English religious devotion. Dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, they are among a group of texts written in English at a time when the language of literature and the court was Anglo-Norman French, and the language of church and state was Latin. The text for which this group is named, The Wooing of Our Lord is also a highly skilled composition, combining beautiful and poetic expression with a profound affective theology. Its first-person female narrator speaks directly to Christ, becoming the voice of the reader whom the text guides through a passionate meditation upon the magnitude of Christ’s love, his sufferings in his Passion, and the response of the individual soul. Catherine Innes-Parker’s graceful new translation is paired with the original Middle English dialect in a facing-page format.

Author : Yoko Wada
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842439

Get Book

A Companion to Ancrene Wisse by Yoko Wada Pdf

Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise.

Author : Ayoush Lazikani
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783162789

Get Book

Cultivating the Heart by Ayoush Lazikani Pdf

•Detailed close analysis of early Middle English homiletic, hagiographic, guidance, and lyrical-meditative texts: provides readers with an insight into the affective literary strategies of a body of neglected material. •Contextualization of English material in Latin and Anglo-Norman: provides readers with a deeper knowledge of the multilingual culture of medieval England in the post-Conquest centuries. •Substantial commentary on church wall paintings: provides readers with a nuanced understanding of the ways in which the affective strategies of visual resources can be mapped onto texts.

Author : Catherine A. Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441156549

Get Book

Whitman's Queer Children by Catherine A. Davies Pdf

Davies examines the work of four of the most important twentieth-century poets who have explored the epic tradition. Some of the poems display an explicit concern with ideas of American nationhood, while others emulate the formal ambitions and encyclopaedic scope of the epic poem. The study undertakes extensive close readings of Hart Crane's The Bridge (1930), Allen Ginsberg's ?Howl? (1956) and The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-71 (1972), James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), and John Ashbery's Flow Chart (1991). Although not primarily an account of a Whitmanian lineage, this book considers Whitman's renegotiation of the dialectic between the public and the private as a context for the project of the homosexual epic, arguing for the existence of a genealogy of epic poems that rethink the relationship between these two spheres. If, as Bakhtin suggests, the job of epic is to ?accomplish the task of cultural, national, and political centralization of the verbal-ideological world,? the idea of the ?homosexual epic? fundamentally problematizes the traditional aims of the genre.

Author : Anne Savage,Nicholas Watson
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809132575

Get Book

Anchoritic Spirituality by Anne Savage,Nicholas Watson Pdf

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.