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Medieval Anchoritisms: Gender, Space and the Solitary Life
Liz Herbert McAvoy
Swansea University Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Abstract
This book takes as its focus the wider cultural importance of medieval anchoritism within a context of varying religious landscapes an epistemologies. Drawing upon a range of contemporary gender and spatial theories, it also investigates the complex gender dynamics of the reclusive life and the spac...
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Cambridge
D.S. Brewer
2011
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| Online Access: |
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Medieval-Anchoritisms-Gender-Solitary-Middle/dp/1843842777 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11179 |
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| Abstract: |
This book takes as its focus the wider cultural importance of medieval anchoritism within a context of varying religious landscapes an epistemologies. Drawing upon a range of contemporary gender and spatial theories, it also investigates the complex gender dynamics of the reclusive life and the spaces which it generated. |
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| Keywords: |
Anchoritism; gender history; enclosure; medieval writing |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |