IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 1307: Anchorites and Mystics, II: Anchoritism and Models of Community
Wednesday 14 July 2004, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | The Anchoritic Society |
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| Organiser: | Mari Hughes-Edwards, University of Salford / Liverpool John Moores University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Mari Hughes-Edwards, University of Salford / Liverpool John Moores University |
| Paper 1307-a | The Pastoral Context of the Ancrene Wisse Group: Anchoresses and Others (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1307-c | Lives of the Anchoresses: The Emergence of the Urban Female Recluse in Northern Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Theology, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This session looks at anchoritism in the high and later Middle Ages. It examines anchoritism from the perspective of its potential sociability and investigates the extent to which the medieval recluse was a social being, looking at the communities and social networks which sprang up around them |