Gunn / McAvoy Medieval Anchorites in their Communities

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78744-029-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 45, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion

Essays challenging the orthodox opinion of anchorites as entirely divorced from the world around them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gunn, Cate

McAvoy, Liz Herbert

Weitere Mitwirkende

Thornton, Andrew

Gunn, Cate

Innes Parker, Catherine

Drieshen, Clarck

Dowding, Clare

Denissen, Diana

Kim, Dorothy

Jones, E A

Perk, Godelinde Gertrude

Plumtree, James

McAvoy, Liz Herbert

Sauer, Michelle M.

Sawicka-Sykes, Sophie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Liz Herbert McAvoy and Cate Gunn
'O Sely Ankir!' - E.A. Jones
The Anchoress of Colne Priory: A Solitary in Community - Cate Gunn
Anchorites in their Heavenly Communities - Sophie Sawicka-Sykes
Rule Within Rule, Cell Within Cloister: Grimlaicus's Regula Solitariorum - Andrew Thornton
English Nuns as 'Anchoritic Intercessors' for Souls in Purgatory: The Employment of A Revelation of Purgatory by Late Medieval English Nunneries for Their Lay Communities - Clarck Drieshen
'In anniversaries of ower leoveste freond seggeth alle nihene': Anchorites, Chantries and Purgatorial Patronage in Medieval England - Michelle M. Sauer
'Item receyvyd of ye Anker': The Relationships between a Parish and its Anchorites as seen through the Churchwardens' Accounts - Clare Dowding
The Curious Incident of the Hermit in Fisherton - James Plumtree
Was Julian's nightmare a Mare? Julian of Norwich and the Vernacular Community of Storytellers - Godelinde Gertrude Perk
Anchoritic Textual Communities and the Wooing Group Prayers - Catherine Innes-Parker
The Anchoress Transformed: On wel swuðe god ureisun of God almihti and þe wohunge of ure lauerd in the Fourteenth-Century A Talkyng of the Love of God - Diana Denissen
Ancrene Wisse and the Egerton Hours - Dorothy Kim
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gunn Cate:
CATE GUNN is an independent scholar who has written on thirteenth-century anchoritic and pastoral literature.McAvoy Liz Herbert:
LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.Gunn Cate:
CATE GUNN is an independent scholar who has written on thirteenth-century anchoritic and pastoral literature.McAvoy Liz Herbert:
LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.