Ancrene Wisse - From Pastoral Literature to Vernacular Spirituality

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Cate Gunn is a tutor at the University of Essex and also at Cambridge University Institute of Continuing Education. She is an expert on Ancrene Wisse having written widely on the subject and is a contributor to Anchorites! Wombs and Tombs (University of Wales Press). Klappentext "Ancrene Wisse and Vernacular Spirituality in the Middle Ages" is an introduction to the "Ancrene Wisse"--an important thirteenth-century guide for recluses who! for religious reasons! withdrew from secularity in order to lead an ascetic and prayer-oriented life. This volume considers the broad religious context in which the "Ancrene Wisse" was written and broadens that context by addressing issues of readership! drawing comparisons between lay piety and sermons! and challenging some of the long-held views on Ancrene Wisse's" "specifically female readership! articulating a place for the monastic classic in the developing literature of vernacular spirituality. Zusammenfassung Provides an introduction to "Ancrene Wisse"! one of the most important works in English of the thirteenth century. This book offers a fresh contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages.

Product details

• Authors: Cate Gunn, Gunn Cate
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.06.2008, delayed
• EAN: 9780708320341
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2034-1
• No. of pages: 243
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages; University of Wales Press - Re; Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, to, Pastoral, Vernacular, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Spirituality, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, From, Wisse, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Middle English, Ancrene