An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural
and religious life in the middle ages. Originating in the deserts
of northern Africa in the early years of Christianity, anchoritism,
or the enclosed solitary life, gradually metamorphosed into a
permanent characteristic of European religiosity; from the twelfth
century onwards, and throughout the middle ages, it was embraced
with increasing enthusiasm, by devoted laywomen in particular. This
book investigates the wider cultural importance of medieval
anchoritism within the different religious landscapes and climates
of the period. Drawing upon a range of contemporary gender and
spatial theories, it focuses on the gender dynamics of this
remarkable way of life, and the material spaces which they
generated and within which they operated. As such, it unites
related - but too often discrete - areas of scholarship, including
early Christian anchoritism, anchoritic guidance texts and
associated works, fourteenth and fifteenth-century holy womenwith
close anchoritic connections, and a range of other less known works
dealing with or connected to the anchoritic life. Dr LIZ HERBERT
MCAVOY is Senior Lecturer in Gender in English and Medieval Studies
at Swansea University
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