Ancrene Wisse
Cate Gunn
Religion & Spirituality
Ancrene Wisse
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Provides an introduction to "Ancrene Wisse", one of the most important works in English of the thirteenth century. This book offers a fresh contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages.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.

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English
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Introduction
The Fourth Lateran Council
Eucharistic theology
The female religious movement: anchoritesand beguines
Anchoritic spirituality
Lay piety
Pastoralia
The rhetoric of preaching
Beguine sermons
Pastoral literature
The rhetoric of Ancrene Wisse
Structure
Exempla and similitudines
Ancrene Wisse: asceticism and contemplation
Reading Ancrene Wisse as vernacular spirituality
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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