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‘“3e beoð þe ancren of Englond . . . a þah 3e weren an cuuent of Chester”: Liminal Spaces and the Anchoritic Life in Medieval Chester’
Liz Herbert McAvoy
Mapping the Medieval City: Space, Place and Identity in Chester c.1200-1600, Pages: 99 - 113
Swansea University Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Abstract
This essay examines the many expressions of the anchoritic life in medieval Chester and its borderland environs, arguing for its political and social impact upon an unstable region of shifting identities.
| Published in: | Mapping the Medieval City: Space, Place and Identity in Chester c.1200-1600 |
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| Published: |
Cardiff, UK
University of Wales Press
2011
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| Online Access: |
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo13315011.html |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11862 |
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| Abstract: |
This essay examines the many expressions of the anchoritic life in medieval Chester and its borderland environs, arguing for its political and social impact upon an unstable region of shifting identities. |
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| Keywords: |
Medieval history; medieval religion; gender; anchoritism |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
99 |
| End Page: |
113 |