Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages (University of Wales Press - Religion and Culture in the Midd) (Religion & Culture in the Middle Ages)

by Liz Herbert Mc Avoy (Author), Mari Hughes - Edwards (Author)

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  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.