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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

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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'...

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Published in: The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England Papers read at Charney Manor, July 2011 [Exeter Symposium 8]
Published: Cambridge D. S. Brewer 2013
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