Lives of the Anchoresses: The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe (Middle Ages)

by Anneke B . Mulder - Bakker (Author), Myra Heerspink Scholz (Translator)

• New

  Hardcover
  2005

  $82.33

  In cities and towns across northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman took up authoritative though solitary positions in medieval society. Mulder-Bakker offers a new history of these women and their roles as counselors, theological innovators, and public recluses.