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Provides an introduction to "Ancrene Wisse", one of the most important works in English of the thirteenth century. This book offers a fresh contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages. 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.

Christian spirituality --- Ancren riwle --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- English literature --- Nuns --- Women --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- History and criticism. --- Religious life. --- Books and reading --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Ancren riwle. --- Woman (Christian theology) --- Sisters (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) --- Christians --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Ancrene wisse --- Ancrene riwle --- Guide of Anchoresses --- Anchoresses' rule --- Anchoresses' guide --- Règle des recluses --- Regola delle anacorete --- Nuns' rule --- cultuur --- middle ages --- culture --- religie --- religion --- middeleeuwen --- Anchorite --- Ancrene Wisse --- Beguines and Beghards --- God --- Laity --- Spirituality

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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.

Christian religious orders --- anno 500-1499 --- Church history --- Church history. --- Einsiedelei. --- Hermits --- Hermits. --- Kommunität. --- Religiöse Gemeinschaft. --- Middle Ages. --- History --- 600-1500. --- England.

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Pastoral theology --- Pastoral care --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- History --- History and criticism.

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Christian religion --- Christian pastoral theology --- Literature --- England

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