Reading Medieval Anchoritism - Ideology and Spiritual Practices

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.

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• Autori: HUGHES EDWARDS MARI, Mari Hughes-Edwards, Hughes-Edwards Mari
• Editore: University of Wales Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9780708325049
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2504-9
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages; Religion and Culture in the Mi; Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Medioevo; 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