Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs

Liz Herbert McAvoy, Mari Hughes-Edwards

University of Wales Press, 2009

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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.

ISBN-13
9780708322000
ISBN-10
070832200X
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Year
2009
Publication date
2009-05-01
Pages
256
Dimensions
217x143x13
Weight
306