The materiality of Middle English anchoritic devotion /edited by Michelle M. Sauer and Jenny C. Bledsoe. 

 - 1 online resource (144 pages) 
 - Early Middle English .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Bodies, Objects, and the Significance of Things in Early Middle English Reclusion: An Introduction /  Clothing and Female Reclusion in The Life of Mary of Egypt and The Life of Christina Markyate /  Materiality, Documentary Authority, and the Circulation of the Katherine Group /  Framing Materiality: Relic Discourse and Medieval English Anchoritism /  Relics and the Recluse's Touch in Goscelin's Miracles of St. Edmund /  Mary, Silence, and the Fictions of Power in Ancrene Wisse 2.269-481 /  The Anchoritic Body at Prayer in Goscelin of St. Bertin's Liber confortatorius /  Stupor in John of Gaddesden's Rosa medicinæ /  The Material of Vernacular English Devotion: Temptation and Sweetness in Ancrene Wisse and Richard Rolle's Form of Living /  The Archaeological Context of an Anchoritic Cell at Ruyton, Shropshire /  Michelle M. Sauer and Jenny C. Bledsoe --  Anna McKay --  Jenny C. Bledsoe --  Michelle M. Sauer --  Sophie Sawicka-Sykes --  Joshua S. Easterling --  Alicia Smith --  Laura Godfrey --  Jennifer N. Brown --  Victoria Yuskaitis. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781641894883 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBC1E2918  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>020308450  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christian literature, English (Middle)--History and criticism.<br/>Material culture in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR275  / .M384 2021