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Reading Medieval Anchoritism: Ideology and Spiritual Practices (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages series)
Mari Hughes-Edwards
Hardcover. University of Wales Press 2012-08-15.
ISBN 9780708325049
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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
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