Liz Herbert Mcavoy

Medieval Anchoritisms

Gender, Space and the Solitary Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 211
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781843842774
• ISBN-10: 1843842777
• Artikelnr.: 33187508

Autorenporträt

LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Miles Christi: Early Anchoritic Masculinity and the Sacred
Videte vocacionem vestram: Late Medieval Male Anchoritism and the Spectral
Feminine Writing the Flesh: Female Anchoritism and the Master Narrative
Reading with the Eyes Closed: Revising the Master Narrative Mapping the
Anchorhold: Anchorites, Borderlands and Liminal Spaces Afterword
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