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Lives of the Anchoresses - The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
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Lives of the Anchoresses - The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
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Lives of the Anchoresses The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval
Europe Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker. Translated by Myra Heerspink Scholz
"We are blessed here with a study of rare insight and perception
into the functioning of lay religious devotion in northwestern
Europe and its interaction with institutionalized and learned
clerical religion."--"Speculum" 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. Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker is a
senior lecturer in history and medieval studies at the University
of Groningen. She is the author many books in Dutch, including
"Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe,
1200-1550" and is editor of "The Invention of Saintliness" and
"Sanctity and Motherhood: Essays on Holy Mothers in the Middle
Ages." The Middle Ages Series 2005 312 pages 6 x 9 ISBN
978-0-8122-3852-5 Cloth $65.00s 42.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0286-1 Ebook
$65.00s 42.50 World Rights History, Women's/Gender Studies,
Religion Short copy: In cities and towns across northern Europe in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman
took up authoritative though solitary positions in medieval
society. Mulder-Bakker offers a new history of these women and
their roles as counselors, theological innovators, and public
recluses.
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