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Anchorites and their texts, such as Ancrene Wisse, have recently undergone a reevaluation based on material circumstances, not just theological import. The articles here address a variety of anchoritic or anchoritic-adjacent texts, encompassing guidance literature, hagiographies, miracle narratives, medical discourse, and mystic prose, and spanning in date from the eighth through the fourteenth centuries. Exploring reclusion and materiality, the collection addresses a series of overlapping themes, including the importance of touch, the limits of religious authority, and the role of the senses. Objects, metaphorical and real, embodied and spiritual, populate the pages. These categories are permeable, with flexible and porous boundaries, demonstrating the conflation of ideas, concepts, and manifestations in medieval materiality. In fact, the permeability of these categories demonstrates how materiality can reshape our approach to medieval texts. It leaves room for directions for future study, including the application of material analysis to previously unstudied objects, spaces, and literary artifacts.

Material culture in literature. --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- History and criticism. --- Christian literature, English --- Christian literature, Middle English --- English Christian literature, Middle --- Middle English Christian literature --- English literature --- Middle English literature. --- anchorites. --- ancrenne wisse. --- embodiment. --- medieval materiality. --- medieval relics. --- reclusion.

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The late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipline in Church and State: priests, confessors, bishops, judges, the Pope. This practice, in which the injured party had to confront the wrong-doer directly and privately, was known as fraternal correction. Edwin Craun examines how pastoral writing instructed Christians to make this corrective process effective by avoiding slander, insult, and hypocrisy. He explores how John Wyclif and his followers expanded this established practice to authorize their own polemics against mendicants and clerical wealth. Finally, he traces how major English reformist writing - Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger, and The Book of Margery Kempe - expanded the practice to justify their protests, to protect themselves from repressive elements in the late Ricardian and Lancastrian Church and State, and to urge their readers to mount effective protests against religious, social, and political abuses.

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The translation of learned Latin materials into English between around 1370 and 1410 was a highly controversial activity. It was thought likely to make available to lay audiences the authoritative and intellectual information and methods of argument previously only accessible to an educated elite - and with that knowledge the power of information. Fiona Somerset's 1998 study examines what kinds of academic material were imported into English, what sorts of audience were projected for this kind of clerical discourse and how writers positioned themselves with respect to potential audience and opponents. The well-known concerns with clerical corruption and lay education of authors such as Langland, Trevisa, and Wyclif are linked to those of more obscure writers in both Latin and English, some only recently edited, or only extant in manuscript.

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Religious studies --- Old English literature --- Christianity and literature --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature --- English literature --- God in literature --- Holy, The, in literature --- Religion in literature --- Sex in literature --- Sex --- 241.64 --- 241.64 Theologische ethiek: seksuele ethiek --- Theologische ethiek: seksuele ethiek --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry --- History --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Religion in literature. --- History and criticism. --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- RELIGION DANS LA LITTERATURE --- SEXE --- LITTERATURE CHRETIENNE ANGLAISE --- CHRISTIANISME ET LITTERATURE --- CIVILISATION MEDIEVALE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- SACRE (LE) DANS LA LITTERATURE --- DIEU DANS LA LITTERATURE --- SEXUALITE --- 1100-1500 (MOYEN-ANGLAIS) --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ASPECT RELIGIEUX --- CHRISTIANISME --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- JUSQUE 1500 --- DANS LA LITTERATURE

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Christian literature, English (Middle) --- English literature --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Communication in literature. --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- Language arts --- Communication arts --- Communication --- History and criticism. --- History --- Study and teaching --- Mary, --- ʻAdhrāʼ --- Arogyamata --- Ārōkkiyamāta --- Birhen ng mga Dukha --- Blessed Lady --- Blessed Mother --- Blessed Virgin Mary, --- Hagnē Theotokos --- Madonna, The --- Mama Mary --- Mare de Déu --- Maria, --- Mariam Astuatsatsin --- Marie, --- Marie Théotokos --- Marii︠a︡, --- Maryam, --- Maryja, --- Meryem Ana --- Miryam, --- Mother of God --- Muíre, --- Nossa Senhora --- Our Lady --- Our Lady of Good Health --- Our Lady of Sorrows --- Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament --- Qiddīsah Maryam --- Theotokos --- Vierge Marie, --- Virgen María --- Virgin Mary, --- Virgin of the Poor --- Ynang Maria --- مريم --- مريم العذراء --- 성모마리아 --- Our Lady of Emmitsburg --- Majka Isusova --- In literature. --- Symbolism. --- Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature latine médiévale et moderne --- Communication dans la littérature --- Rhétorique médiévale --- Arts du langage --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Mariam Astuatsatsin, --- Meryem Ana, --- Virgen María, --- Ynang Maria,