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Reading Medieval Anchoritism - Ideology and Spiritual Practices (Hardcover)
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Reading Medieval Anchoritism - Ideology and Spiritual Practices (Hardcover)
Series: Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
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Medieval anchorites willingly embraced the most extreme form of
solitude known to the medieval world, so they might forge a closer
connection with God. Yet to be physically enclosed within the same
four walls for life required strength far beyond most medieval
Christians. This book explores the English anchoritic guides which
were written, revised and translated, throughout the Middle Ages,
to enable recluses to come to terms with the enormity of their
choices. The book explores five centuries of the guides'
negotiations of four anchoritic ideals: enclosure, solitude,
chastity and orthodoxy, and of two vital anchoritic spiritual
practices: asceticism and contemplative experience. It explodes the
myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, revealing it as the
site of potential intellectual exchange and spiritual growth.
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