The Materiality of Middle English Anchoritic Devotion.
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- 9781641894883
- PR275.R4 M384 2021
COVER -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- 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 OF 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 INGOSCELIN'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 SAINT-BERTIN'S LIBER CONFORTATORIUS -- STUPOR IN JOHN OF GADDESDEN'S ROSA MEDICINAE -- THE MATERIAL OF VERNACULAR ENGLISH DEVOTION: TEMPTATION AND SWEETNESS IN ANCRENE WISSE AND RICHARD ROLLE'S FORM OF LIVING -- THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF AN ANCHORITE CELL AT RUYTON, SHROPSHIRE -- INDEX.
Explores materiality in Middle English anchoritic texts, encompassing guidance literature, hagiographies, miracle narratives, medical discourse, and mystic prose.
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