TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sauer,Michelle M.
AU  - Bledsoe,Jenny C.
TI  - The materiality of Middle English anchoritic devotion /edited by Michelle M. Sauer and Jenny C. Bledsoe
T2  - Early Middle English
SN  - 9781641894883
AV  - PR275 .M384 2021
KW  - Christian literature, English (Middle)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Material culture in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Bodies, Objects, and the Significance of Things in Early Middle English Reclusion: An Introduction; Michelle M. Sauer and Jenny C. Bledsoe --; Clothing and Female Reclusion in The Life of Mary of Egypt and The Life of Christina Markyate; Anna McKay --; Materiality, Documentary Authority, and the Circulation of the Katherine Group; Jenny C. Bledsoe --; Framing Materiality: Relic Discourse and Medieval English Anchoritism; Michelle M. Sauer --; Relics and the Recluse's Touch in Goscelin's Miracles of St. Edmund; Sophie Sawicka-Sykes --; Mary, Silence, and the Fictions of Power in Ancrene Wisse 2.269-481; Joshua S. Easterling --; The Anchoritic Body at Prayer in Goscelin of St. Bertin's Liber confortatorius; Alicia Smith --; Stupor in John of Gaddesden's Rosa medicinæ; Laura Godfrey --; The Material of Vernacular English Devotion: Temptation and Sweetness in Ancrene Wisse and Richard Rolle's Form of Living; Jennifer N. Brown --; The Archaeological Context of an Anchoritic Cell at Ruyton, Shropshire; Victoria Yuskaitis; 2; b
N2  - 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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