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Anchoritic traditions of medieval Europe / edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy.
- Title
- Anchoritic traditions of medieval Europe / edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy.
- Publication
- Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : Boydell, 2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Herbert McAvoy, Liz
- Description
- xi, 241 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The practice of anchoritism - religious enclosure which was frequently solitary and voluntarily embraced - was widespread in many areas of Europe throughout the middle ages. Originating in the desert withdrawal of the earliest Christians and predating even the monastic life, anchoritism developed into an elite vocation which was popular among both men and women; in the later period it was particularly associated with pious laywomen, who opted for this extreme way of life in substantial numbers throughout western Europe, often as an alternative to marriage or remarriage. This volume brings together for the first time in English much of the most important European scholarship on the subject."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Liz Herbert McAvoy -- Anchorites in German-speaking regions / Gabriela Signori -- Anchorites in the Italian tradition / M. Sensi -- Anchorites in the Spanish tradition / G. Cavero Domínguez -- Anchoritism in medieval France / P. L'Hermite-Leclercq -- Anchoritism : the English tradition / Mari Hughes-Edwards -- Anchorites in late medieval Ireland / Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB -- Anchorites in medieval Scotland / Anna McHugh -- Anchorites and medieval Wales / Liz Herbert McAvoy.
- ISBN
- 9781843835202 (hbk.)
- 1843835207 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2010292528
- OCLC
- 455821645
- SCSB-12767163
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library