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Rhetoric of the Anchorhold: Space, Place and Body within the Discourses of Enclosure

Liz Herbert McAvoy

Swansea University Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy

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This book brings together essays on medieval anchoritic enclosure and the important discourses it generated - particularly those concerned with gender difference - in the Middle Ages. It examines this popular way of life from a number of perspectives, aiming to unpick the complex matrix of associati...

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Published: Cardiff, UK University of Wales Press 2008
Online Access: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo6166613.html
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11440
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Abstract: This book brings together essays on medieval anchoritic enclosure and the important discourses it generated - particularly those concerned with gender difference - in the Middle Ages. It examines this popular way of life from a number of perspectives, aiming to unpick the complex matrix of associations generated by its rhetoric.
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences