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Originating in the deserts of northern Africa in the early years of Christianity, anchoritism, or the enclosed solitary life, gradually metamorphosed into a permanent characteristic of European religiosity; from the twelfth century onwards, and throughout the middle ages, it was embraced with increasing enthusiasm, by devoted laywomen in particular. This book investigates the wider cultural importance of medieval anchoritism within the different religious landscapes and climates of the period. Drawing upon a range of contemporary gender and spatial theories, it focuses on the gender dynamics of this remarkable way of life, and the material spaces which they generated and within which they operated. As such, it unites related - but too often discrete - areas of scholarship, including early Christian anchoritism, anchoritic guidance texts and associated works, fourteenth and fifteenth-century holy women with close anchoritic connections, and a range of other less known works dealing with or connected to the anchoritic life. Dr LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY is Senior Lecturer in Gender in English and Medieval Studies at Swansea University

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Medieval Anchoritisms
• Subtitle: Gender, Space and the Solitary Life
• Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 211
• EAN: 9781843842774
• ID: 04856636
• Publisher: D.S. Brewer
• Weight: 590 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 155 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. August 2011

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