Ancrene Wisse : From Pastoral Literature to Vernacular Spirituality Hardback
by Cate Gunn
Part of the Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages series
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This book is innovative in that it provides an introduction to Ancrene Wisse, one of the most important works in English of the thirteenth century.
It offers a new contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages, thus extending analysis of the book beyond its original purpose as a guide for anchoresses.
The placing of Ancrene Wisse within this context also allows comparisons to be made with other literature for semi-regular women, such as sermons preached to beguines - semi-religious women who formed communities in the Low Countries and France in the High Middle Ages.
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform.
It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:30/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780708320341
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:30/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780708320341
