Format:
Book
Title:
Anchoritic traditions of medieval Europe / edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy.
Publisher, Date:
Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : Boydell, 2010.
Description:
xi, 241 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
"The practice of anchoritism - religious enclosure which was frequently solitary and voluntarily embraced - was widespread in many areas of Europe throughout the middle ages. Originating in the desert withdrawal of the earliest Christians and predating even the monastic life, anchoritism developed into an elite vocation which was popular among both men and women; in the later period it was particularly associated with pious laywomen, who opted for this extreme way of life in substantial numbers throughout western Europe, often as an alternative to marriage or remarriage. This volume brings together for the first time in English much of the most important European scholarship on the subject."--Jacket.
Subjects:
Geschichte 500-1500.
To 1500
Geschichte 500-1500
Hermits -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Eremitic life -- Europe.
Christian life -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Hermits -- Europe -- Conduct of life.
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Vie érémitique -- Europe.
Vie chrétienne -- Europe -- Histoire -- 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Ermites -- Europe -- Morale pratique.
Église -- Histoire -- 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Christian life -- Middle Ages.
Church history -- Middle Ages.
Eremitic life.
Hermits.
Einsiedler
ermite -- Europe -- Moyen-Âge -- études diverses.
Eremiter -- historia -- Europa -- före 1500.
Europe.
Europa
Genre:
History.
Other Author:
Herbert McAvoy, Liz.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Anchorites in the Low Countries / Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker -- Anchorites in German-speaking regions / Gabriela Signori -- Anchorites in the Italian tradition / M. Sensi -- Anchorites in the Spanish tradition / G. Cavero Domínguez -- Anchoritism in medieval France / P. L'Hermite-Leclercq -- Anchoritism : the English tradition / Mari Hughes-Edwards -- Anchorites in late medieval Ireland / Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB -- Anchorites in medieval Scotland / Anna McHugh -- Anchorites and medieval Wales / Liz Herbert McAvoy.
LCCN:
2010292528
ISBN:
9781783273805
9781843835202
1843835207
1783273801
Other Number:
455821645
System Availability:
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Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
3940417
Call Number:
255.020940902
Course Reserves:
0
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