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Medieval Anchorites in their Communities (Hardcover)
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Medieval Anchorites in their Communities (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
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Essays challenging the orthodox opinion of anchorites as entirely
divorced from the world around them. Much of the research into
medieval anchoritism to date has focused primarily on its liminal
and elite status within the socio-religious cultures of its day:
the anchorite has long been depicted as both solitary and alone,
almost entirely removed from community and living a life of
permanent withdrawal and isolation, in effect dead to the world.
Considerably less attention has been afforded to the communal
sociability that also formed part of the reclusivelife during the
period, The essays in this volume, stemming from a variety of
cross-disciplinary approaches and methodologies, lay down a
challenge to this position, breaking new ground in their
presentation of the medievalanchorite and other types of enclosed
solitary as playing a central role within the devotional life of
the communities in which they were embedded. They attest also to
the frequent involvement of anchorites and other recluses in local,
national and, sometimes, international matters of importance.
Overall, the volume suggests that, far from operating on the
socio-religious periphery, as posited previously, the medieval
anchorite was more often found at theheart of a sometimes
intersecting array of communities: synchronic and diachronic;
physical and metaphysical; religious and secular; gendered and
textual. CATE GUNN has taught in the Continuing Education and
LiteratureDepartments of the University of Essex; LIZ HERBERT
MCAVOY is Professor of Medieval Literature at Swansea University.
Contributors: Diana Denissen, Clare Dowding, Clarck Drieshen, Cate
Gunn, Catherine Innes-Parker, E.A. Jones, Dorothy Kim, Liz Herbert
McAvoy, Godelinde Perk, James Plumtree, Michelle Sauer, Sophie
Sawicka-Sykes, Andrew Thornton OSB,
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