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Author : Hugh White
Release : 1993
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Ancrene Wisse by : Hugh White
Download or read book Ancrene Wisse written by Hugh White. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cate Gunn
Release : 2008
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 341/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ancrene Wisse by : Cate Gunn
Download or read book Ancrene Wisse written by Cate Gunn. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to 'Ancrene Wisse', one of the most important works in English of the 13th century. It offers a new contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages.
Author : Yoko Wada
Release : 2003
Genre : Ancren riwle
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Book Rating : 629/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Companion to Ancrene Wisse by : Yoko Wada
Download or read book A Companion to Ancrene Wisse written by Yoko Wada. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13th century 'Ancrene Wisse' is a guide for female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth, it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do, thereby offering a glimpse of what life was really like for Englishwomen in the middle ages.
Author : Anne Savage
Release : 1991
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 577/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anchoritic Spirituality by : Anne Savage
Download or read book Anchoritic Spirituality written by Anne Savage. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometime in the first quarter of the 13th century a number of works were written for anchoresses, women who lived as religious recluses in cells adjoining churches. The most influential is Ancrene Wisse (A Guide for Anchoresses), which discusses in great detail the daily life of the anchoress, both outer and inner. This work gives a detailed sense of a powerful and multi-faceted spirituality different from that of other mystics.
Author : Linda Georgianna
Release : 1981
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 517/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Solitary Self by : Linda Georgianna
Download or read book The Solitary Self written by Linda Georgianna. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ancrene Wisse is a spiritual guide for female recluses, written at the request of three anchoresses who were voluntarily enclosed for life within small cells. Georgianna analyzes this complex and skillfully composed treatise and examines its detailed portrayal of the rich, alternately rewarding and frustrating inner life of the solitary.
