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Regentinnen Und Andere Stellvertreterfiguren - Vom 10. Bis Zum 15. Jahrhundert: Gabriela Signori, Claudia Zey Regentinnen Und Andere Stellvertreterfiguren - Vom 10. Bis Zum 15. Jahrhundert
Gabriela Signori, Claudia Zey
R2,096 Discovery Miles 20 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe (Paperback): Liz Herbert McAvoy Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
Liz Herbert McAvoy; Contributions by Anna McHugh, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Colman O Clabaigh, G. Cavero Dominguez, …
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An examination of the growth and different varieties of anchoritism throughout medieval Europe. The practice of anchoritism - religious enclosure which was frequently solitary and voluntarily embraced, very often in a permanent capacity - was widespread in many areas of Europe throughout the middle ages. Originating in the desert withdrawal of the earliest Christians and prefiguring even the monastic life, anchoritism developed into an elite vocation which was popular amongst both men and women. Within this reclusive vocation, the anchorite would withdraw, either alone or with others like her or him, to a small cell or building, very frequently attached to a church or other religious institution, where she or he would - theoretically at least - remain locked up until death. In the later period it was a vocation which was particularly associated with pious laywomen who appear to have opted for this extreme way of life in their thousands throughout western Europe, often as an alternative to marriage orremarriage, allowing them, instead, to undertake the role of "living saint" within the community. This volume brings together for the first time in English much of the most important European scholarship on the subject to date. Tracing the vocation's origins from the Egyptian deserts of early Christian activity through to its multiple expressions in western Europe, it also identifies some of those regions - Wales and Scotland, for example - where thephenomenon does not appear to have been as widespread. As such, the volume provides an invaluable resource for those interested in the theories and practices of medieval anchoritism in particular, and the development of medieval religiosity more widely. Dr LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY is Professor of Medieval Literature at Swansea University. CONTRIBUTORS: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Gabriela Signori, M. Sensi, G. Cavero Dominguez, P. L'Hermite-Leclercq, Mari Hughes-Edwards, Colman O Clabaigh, Anna McHugh, Liz Herbert McAvoy.

Raume, Gesten, Andachtsformen - Geschlecht, Konflikt Und Religiose Kultur Im Europaischen Mittelalter (German, Hardcover):... Raume, Gesten, Andachtsformen - Geschlecht, Konflikt Und Religiose Kultur Im Europaischen Mittelalter (German, Hardcover)
Gabriela Signori
R1,673 Discovery Miles 16 730 Out of stock
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