Ideology and Spiritual Practices
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/12/2011
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.
- ISBN:
- 9780708325049
- 9780708325049
- Category:
- Christian communities & monasticism
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 08-12-2011
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- University of Wales Press
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions (mm):
- 234x156x20mm
- Weight:
- 0.45kg
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