Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs : Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages

by Liz Herbert McAvoy , Mari Hughes-Edwards

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages

ISBN-10 070832200X

ISBN-13 9780708322000

Publisher University of Wales Press

Imprint University of Wales Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 1st, 2009

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 378 grams

Dimensions 21.70 x 14.30 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 Church history Christian communities & monasticism

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Ranging from studies of the influence of desert eremiticism upon a variety of expressions of religious enclosure in England to the sexualized spirituality of the high Middle Ages, this book contains essays that demonstrate how discourses of anchoritic enclosure were utilized to different ends at different periods throughout the Middle Ages.

Until recently, the figure of the medieval anchorite and the underlying ideological concepts that framed her day-to-day existence have escaped detailed examination, despite the anchorites importance to the study of medieval culture. This collection brings together leading scholars in the field of gender and anchoritic studies in order to examine anchoritic enclosure from a variety of different perspectives. In so doing, Anchorites, Wombs, and Tombs offers illuminating conclusions about how the phenomenon of anchoritism was affected by, and in turn, influenced contemporary notions of gender difference.

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