Anchorites, Wombs, and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages) - Hardcover

9780708318638: Anchorites, Wombs, and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708318630 ISBN 13: 9780708318638

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2005

Until recently, the figure of the medieval anchorite and the underlying ideological concepts that framed her day-to-day existence have escaped detailed examination, despite the anchorite’s importance to the study of medieval culture. This collection brings together leading scholars in the field of gender and anchoritic studies in order to examine anchoritic enclosure from a variety of different perspectives. In so doing, Anchorites, Wombs, and Tombs offers illuminating conclusions about how the phenomenon of anchoritism was affected by, and in turn, influenced contemporary notions of gender difference.

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About the Author

Mari Hughes-Edwards is a senior lecturer in English literature at Edge Hill University.

Review

“With its broad chronological range, extending from the ninth century to the fifteenth, and its extensive specialist variety, this is a collection more likely to be cherry-picked than consistently worked through, but that does not detract from the value of the individual essays.” –R. N. Swanson, University of Birmingham (R.N. Swanson)

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