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Medieval anchoritisms : gender, space and the solitary life / Liz Herbert McAvoy.
Van Pelt Library BX2847.E85 H47 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herbert McAvoy, Liz.
- Series:
- Gender in the Middle Ages ; v. 6.
- Gender in the Middle Ages, 1742-870X ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hermits--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Hermits.
- Women hermits--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Women hermits.
- Women and religion--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Women and religion.
- History.
- Europe--Church history--600-1500.
- Europe.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 201 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2011.
- Contents:
- Miles Christi : early anchoritic masculinity and the sacred
- Videte vocacionem vestram : late-medieval male anchoritism and the spectral feminine
- Writing the flesh : female anchoritism and the master narrative
- Reading with the eyes closed : revising the master narrative
- Mapping the anchorhold : anchorites, borderlands and liminal spaces.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781843842774
- 1843842777
- OCLC:
- 704381468
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