IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1223: Intersections of Enclosure and Sanctity
Wednesday 12 July 2006, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | International Anchoritic Society |
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Organiser: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University |
Moderator/Chair: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University |
Paper 1223-a | Roodscreens and Parlour Windows: Sacred and Permeable Boundaries (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life |
Paper 1223-b | Late Medieval Hagiographic Narrative and Anchoritic Spirituality (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
Paper 1223-c | The Enclosed Silent Night: Sanctity and Sound in the Medieval Anchorhold (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session aims to examine the ways in which sanctity is constructed within anchoritic discourse and practice, both from within the anchorhold by its solitary inhabitant him/herself, and from the outside by the compilers of hagiographic narratives. In particular, it will pay attention to changes within the sensory perceptions of the anchorite following enclosure and the meanings attributed to these new perceptions. The session will also aim to examine the extent to which these newly constructed meanings filtered out the anchorhold and affected the laity via changed literary practices within the medium of popular hagiography. |