Reading Medieval Anchoritism Ideology and Spiritual Practices

Informationen zum Autor Mari Hughes-Edwards is a senior lecturer in English literature at Edge Hill University. Klappentext Medieval anchorites embraced the most extreme and punishing form of solitude known to the medieval world--enclosure in the same four walls for life--in order to forge a closer connection with God. As a way of understanding the lives, beliefs, and experiences of anchorites, Reading Medieval Anchoritism explores guides to the anchorite life that were published in England throughout the Middle Ages. Mari Hughes-Edwards surveys five centuries of the guides' negotiations of four anchoritic ideals--enclosure, solitude, chastity, and orthodoxy--as well as two vital spiritual practices, asceticism and contemplative experience. The book explodes the long-standing myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, revealing it instead as the site of potential intellectual change and spiritual growth. Zusammenfassung This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450! explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell! reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange! and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieval world.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Mari Hughes-Edwards, HUGHES EDWARDS MARI, Hughes-Edwards Mari
• Edition: University of Wales Press
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre Relié
• Date de parution: 08.12.2011
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Moyen Age; Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religion: général, ouvrages de référence
• EAN: 9780708325049
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2504-9
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Thème: Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages; Religion and Culture in the Mi; Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
• Catégories: England, Spiritual, Reading, RELIGION / Christian Church / History, medieval, History of Religion, Medieval History, Ideology, British & Irish history, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Practices, Church history, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Christian communities & monasticism, Anchoritism