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‘Envisioning Reform: A Revelation of Purgatory and Anchoritic compassioun in the Later Middle Ages’
Liz Herbert McAvoy
The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England VIII, Papers Read at Charney Manor July 2011,, Volume: VIII
Swansea University Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Abstract
This chapter examines a little known female-authored medieval text, written by an anonymous female anchorite who was a contemporary of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. It argues for its considerable importance within the contexts of the history of women's writing and, more pertinently, the...
| Published in: | The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England VIII, Papers Read at Charney Manor July 2011, |
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| Published: |
Cambridge
D. S. Brewer
2012
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11863 |
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| Abstract: |
This chapter examines a little known female-authored medieval text, written by an anonymous female anchorite who was a contemporary of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. It argues for its considerable importance within the contexts of the history of women's writing and, more pertinently, the imperative for church reform which characterised fifteenth-century English ecclesiastical politics. |
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This volume is currently in press. This essay is based on one section of chapter 4 of the monograph, providing a more detailed account of this particular anchorite and her text. It could, therefore, be offered as a substitute piece, should the monograph be deemed unsuitable for submission. |
| Keywords: |
ancohritism; women's writing; religious history |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |