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Anchorites
Author_Liz Herbert McAvoy
Author_Mari Hughes-Edwards
Category=NH
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Category=QRM
Category=QRVS5
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Product details
- ISBN 9780708322000
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2009
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ranging from studies of the influence of desert eremiticism upon a variety of expressions of religious enclosure in England to the sexualized spirituality of the high Middle Ages, this book contains essays that demonstrate how discourses of anchoritic enclosure were utilized to different ends at different periods throughout the Middle Ages.
Liz Herbert McAvoy is Lecturer in Gender in English Studies at Swansea University. Dr Mari Hughes-Edwards is a Reader in English Literature at Edge Hill University.
