Ancrene Wisse
Author | : Hugh White |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hugh White |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anne Savage |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780809132577 |
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 | : Cate Gunn |
Publisher | : University of Wales |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0708320341 |
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 | : Linda Georgianna |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674817517 |
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.
Author | : Yoko Wada |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1843842432 |
Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise.
Author | : A. C. Baugh |
Publisher | : Early English Text Society |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1999-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859919470 |
Author | : Bella Millett |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859914291 |
Bibliography of prose works offering unique evidence for the nature of women's religious experience in medieval England, with scholarly introduction.
Author | : Robert Hasenfratz |
Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 2001-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1580444261 |
Ancrene Wisse or the Anchoresses Guide (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402), written sometime roughly between 1225 and 1240, represents a revision of an earlier work, usually called the Ancrene Riwle or Anchorites' Rule, a book of religious instruction for three lay women of noble birth.
Author | : Krista A. Murchison |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 184384608X |
First comprehensive survey of a major genre of medieval English texts: its purpose, characteristics, and reception.The "bestseller list" of medieval England would have included many manuals for penitents: works that could teach the public about the process of confession, and explain the abstract concept of sin through familiar situations. Among these 'bestselling' works were the Manuel des péchés (commonly known through its English translation Handlyng Synne), The Speculum Vitae, and Chaucer's Parson's Tale. This book is the first full-length overview of this body of writing and its material and social contexts. It shows that while manuals for penitents developed under the Church's control, they also became a site of the Church's concern. Manuals such as the Compileison (which was addressed to a much broader audience than its English analogue, Ancrene Wisse) brought learning that had been controlled by the Church into the hands of layfolk and, in so doing, raised significant concerns over who should have access to knowledge. Clerics worried that these manuals might accidentally teach people new sins, remind them of old ones, or become sites of prurient interest. This finding, and others explored in this book, call for a new awareness of the complications and contradictions inherent in late medieval orthodoxy and reveal plainly that even writing that happened firmly within the Church's control could promote new and complex ways of thinking about religion and the self.cess to knowledge. Clerics worried that these manuals might accidentally teach people new sins, remind them of old ones, or become sites of prurient interest. This finding, and others explored in this book, call for a new awareness of the complications and contradictions inherent in late medieval orthodoxy and reveal plainly that even writing that happened firmly within the Church's control could promote new and complex ways of thinking about religion and the self.cess to knowledge. Clerics worried that these manuals might accidentally teach people new sins, remind them of old ones, or become sites of prurient interest. This finding, and others explored in this book, call for a new awareness of the complications and contradictions inherent in late medieval orthodoxy and reveal plainly that even writing that happened firmly within the Church's control could promote new and complex ways of thinking about religion and the self.cess to knowledge. Clerics worried that these manuals might accidentally teach people new sins, remind them of old ones, or become sites of prurient interest. This finding, and others explored in this book, call for a new awareness of the complications and contradictions inherent in late medieval orthodoxy and reveal plainly that even writing that happened firmly within the Church's control could promote new and complex ways of thinking about religion and the self.
Author | : Bella Millett |
Publisher | : Early English Text Society |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An influential thirteenth-century English guide for women recluses, this is a key text for studies of women's spirituality in the Middle Ages. This is the first edition based on full manuscript evidence and concludes the edition begun in 2005, EETS O.S. 325.