Medieval anchorites in their communities / edited by Cate Gunn and Liz Herbert McAvoy.
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Gunn, Cate (editor.)
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Herbert McAvoy, Liz (editor.)
- ISBN 9781843844624
- Publicerad: Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2017
- Engelska xiii, 254 pages
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Serie: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion ; 45
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- 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. 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 medieval anchorite and other types of enclosed solitary as playing a central role within the devotional life of a whole range of complex and multifaceted communities: ones that were simultaneously synchronic and diachronic, physical and metaphysical, religious, secular, textual - and gendered. It therefore offers its readers a new way of understanding the operations of the solitary life in the Middle Ages and its interdependence with a whole array of communities, ultimately adding to our knowledge of how spiritual "aloneness" could be pursued ardently, even in the midst of communal interaction.
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- Hermits -- England -- History -- Congresses. (LCSH)
- Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses. (LCSH)
- Church history. (fast)
- Hermits. (fast)
- Church history -- Middle Ages. (fast)
- England. (fast)
- 600-1500 (fast)
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- Conference papers and proceedings. (fast)
- History. (fast)
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- BX2847.G7 (LCC)
- 271/.02042 (DDC)
- Cktaz (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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