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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 Papers read at Charney Manor, July 2011 [Exeter Symposium 8], Pages: 141 - 55
Swansea University Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Abstract
This essay breaks new ground by examining a hitherto overlooked female-authored text from fifteenth-century Winchester, arguing for its need to be read alongside the writing of Julian of Norwich (d. c. 1416) and Margery Kempe (d. c. 1440) as an example of how a female-focused 'compassioun'...
| Published in: | The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England Papers read at Charney Manor, July 2011 [Exeter Symposium 8] |
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| Published: |
Cambridge
D. S. Brewer
2013
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20500 |
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| Abstract: |
This essay breaks new ground by examining a hitherto overlooked female-authored text from fifteenth-century Winchester, arguing for its need to be read alongside the writing of Julian of Norwich (d. c. 1416) and Margery Kempe (d. c. 1440) as an example of how a female-focused 'compassioun' imbricated the works of late-medieval women within late medieval England. The essay aims to demonstrate that such treatments by medieval women in their writing reflect a movement towards an ultimate feminisation of spiritual discourse that found fertile ground within the impetus for Church reform within the Lancastrian circles of fifteenth century England. |
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| Keywords: |
Purgatory; women's writing; medieval compassion; fifteenth-century reform |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
141 |
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55 |