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Uncovering the ‘saintly Anchoress’: myths of Medieval anchoritism and the reclusion of Katharine de Audley

Liz Herbert McAvoy

Women's History Review, Volume: 22, Issue: 5, Pages: 801 - 819

Swansea University Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/09612025.2013.769380

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This article uncovers the lost history of the early fourteenth-century religious recluse, Katharine de Audley, a woman whose life came to be both distorted and romanticised by legend and literary adaptation in the centuries that followed. Tracing first the various literary treatments of Katharine as...

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ISSN: 0961-2025 1747-583X
Published: UK Women's History Review 2013
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