A01=Cate Gunn
Ancrene
Author_Cate Gunn
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Product details
- ISBN 9780708320341
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2008
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is innovative in that it provides an introduction to Ancrene Wisse, one of the most important works in English of the thirteenth century. It offers a new contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages, thus extending analysis of the book beyond its original purpose as a guide for anchoresses. The placing of Ancrene Wisse within this context also allows comparisons to be made with other literature for semi-regular women, such as sermons preached to beguines – semi-religious women who formed communities in the Low Countries and France in the High Middle Ages.
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.
Cate Gunn is a tutor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.
