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21 produkter
Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe
Häftad, 2019
295 kr
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An examination of the growth and different varieties of anchoritism throughout medieval Europe.The practice of anchoritism - religious enclosure which was frequently solitary and voluntarily embraced, very often in a permanent capacity - was widespread in many areas of Europe throughout the middle …
Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs
Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages
Av Liz Herbert McAvoy, Mari Hughes-Edwards m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
229 kr
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Ranging from studies of the influence of desert eremiticism upon a variety of expressions of religious enclosure in England to the sexualized spirituality of the high Middle Ages, this book contains essays that demonstrate how discourses of anchoritic enclosure were utilized to different ends at …
History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500
Volume One
Av Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1262 kr
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This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and …
History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500
Volume One
Av Diane Watt, Liz Herbert McAvoy
E-bok, 2015
398 kr
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This volume focuses on women''s literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women''s literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and …
Consuming Narratives
Gender and Monstrous Appetites in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Av Liz Herbert McAvoy, Teresa Walters
Inbunden, 2002
267 kr
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Consuming Narratives' is a collection of essays dealing with the relevance of the concept and metaphor of appetite for understanding writing, politics, race, nation and gender in the medieval and modern periods.
Rhetoric of the Anchorhold
Space, Place and Body within the Discourses of Enclosures
Inbunden, 2008
1150 kr
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This book examines from a variety of perspectives, and offers a range of interpretations, of the type of rhetoric associated with the anchoritic experience during the Middle Ages and draws conclusions on the many purposes of that rhetoric. In particular, each chapter will aim to unravel aspects of …
History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500
Volume One
Av Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt
Häftad, 2011
418 kr
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This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and …
History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500
Volume One
Av Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt
Häftad, 2015
297 kr
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This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and …
Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
Inbunden, 2004
1513 kr
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An examination of ways in which the writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe were affected by traditional and contemporary attitudes towards women.The writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe show an awareness of traditional and contemporary attitudes towards women, in particular …
Medieval Anchoritisms
Gender, Space and the Solitary Life
Inbunden, 2011
1238 kr
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An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages.Originating in the deserts of northern Africa in the early years of Christianity, anchoritism, or the enclosed solitary life, gradually metamorphosed into a permanent characteristic of European …
Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture
Av Elizabeth Cox, Liz Herbert McAvoy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1424 kr
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A consideration of the ways in which the past was framed and remembered in the pre-modern world.The training and use of memory was crucial in medieval culture, given the limited literacy at the time, but to date, very little thought has been given to the complex and disparate ways in which the …
Companion to Julian of Norwich
Häftad, 2015
410 kr
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One of the most important medieval writers studied in historical and literary context.Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been …
Medieval Anchorites in their Communities
Av Cate Gunn, Liz Herbert McAvoy
Inbunden, 2017
1315 kr
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Essays challenging the orthodox opinion of anchorites as entirely divorced from the world around them.Much of the research into medieval anchoritism to date has focused primarily on its liminal and elite status within the socio-religious cultures of its day: the anchorite has long been depicted as …
A Revelation of Purgatory
Inbunden, 2017
1424 kr
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Translation and facing text of an important female-authored work from the late middle ages.A Revelation of Purgatory was written by an unnamed woman, almost certainly an anchoress, in Winchester in 1422. It details from a first-person perspective a series of terrifying visions experienced by the …
Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary
Inbunden, 2021
1945 kr
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During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device.During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or …
Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages
Speaking Internationally
Av Kathryn, Loveridge, Kathryn Loveridge m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1788 kr
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Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries.Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, medieval women's writing has been the subject of energetic conversation and debate. …
Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages
Giving Voice to Silence. Essays in Honour of Catherine Innes-Parker
Av Cate Gunn, Cate Gunn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1498 kr
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Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker.Silence was a much-lauded concept in the Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature directed at women. Based on the Pauline …
Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages
Av Michelle M. Sauer, Diane Watt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
3002 kr
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This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally. Focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500, this comprehensive reference work addresses a long-standing gap in scholarship on women writers from this period. It challenges current understandings of …
Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages
Av Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
3926 kr
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This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally. Focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500, this comprehensive reference work addresses a long-standing gap in scholarship on women writers from this period. It challenges current understandings of …
Consuming Narratives
Gender and Monstrous Appetites in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Av Liz Herbert McAvoy, Teresa Walters
Häftad, 2002
292 kr
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While moralists may stress the importance of the proper management of appetite, medieval and early modern narratives are full of images of monstrous and deformed appetites running out of control. Consuming Narratives examines the significance of these concepts, metaphors and narratives of appetite …
