Research Catalog

Title

Rhetoric of the anchorhold : space, place and body within the discourses of enclosure / edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy.

Publication

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Herbert McAvoy, Liz

Description

xv, 239 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Rhetoric of the Anchorhold: Space, Place and Body within the Discourses of Enclosure focuses on the type of religious reclusion in England commonly known as anchoritic enclosure, a phenomenon that reached its height of popularity, particularly for women, in the later Middle Ages. It examines from a number of different perspectives this extraordinary way of life whereby both men and women adopted voluntary, permanent and solitary enclosure, often in a small cell attached to a parish church, in both rural and urban locations."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Religion & culture in the Middle Ages

Uniform Title

Religion & culture in the Middle Ages.

Subject

• Christian literature, English (Middle) > History and criticism
• Mysticism > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Hermits

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-219) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: place, space and the body within Anchoritic rhetoric / Liz Herbert McAvoy -- Spaces of reclusion: notarial records of urban eremeticism in Medieval Siena / Allison Clark -- Ceremonies of enclosure: rite, rhetoric and reality / E.A. Jones -- "He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting": rhetoric and audience in the works of the Ancrene Wisse group / Bella Millett -- Private meditations and public discourse: Ancrene Wisse and sermon rhetoric / Cate Gunn -- Inner space as speaking space in Ancrene Wisse / Anna McHugh -- Privacy, exile and the rhetoric of solitude in the Medieval English Anchoritic tradition / Michelle M. Sauer -- Gender, rhetoric and space in the Speculum inclusorum, Letter to a Bury Recluse and the strange case of Christina Carpenter / Liz Herbert McAvoy -- Julian of Norwich and St Bridget of Sweden: creating intimate space with God / Laure Saetveit Miles -- Julian of Norwich and the rhetoric of the impersonal / Fumiko Yoshikawa -- From Anchorhold to cell of self-knowledge: points along a history of the human body / Anne Savage -- The childhood of Christ and the infancy of the soul in Aelred's De Iesu Puero Duodenni / Robin Gilbank -- Eremita et Latro: discourse of hermits and robbers as the "rhetoric of the outsider" / Karl-Heinz Steinmetz.

ISBN

• 9780708321300 (hbk.)
• 0708321305 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 226280840
• SCSB-10612298

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library