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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 106: Ancrene Wisse: New and Enduring Approaches

Monday 12 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:International Anchoritic Society
Organiser:Susannah Chewning, Department of English, Union County College, New Jersey
Moderator/Chair:Jennifer Brown, Department of English, Marymount Manhattan College, New York
Paper 106-aWounds in Ancrene Wisse and the Wooing Group
(Language: English)
Ayoush Sarmada Lazikani, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 106-bDiscourse Strategies in Ancrene Wisse
(Language: English)
Fumiko Yoshikawa, Hiroshima Shudo University
Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Literacy and Orality, Religious Life
Abstract

This session will examine new critical and cultural approaches to Ancrene Wisse and its group as well as ongoing and established critical perspectives on the early anchoritic tradition.