Ancrene Wisse and Vernacular Spirituality in the Middle Ages
Distributed for University of Wales Press
208 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2008
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Part I The religious context
1 The Fourth Lateran Council
2 Eucharistic theology
3 The female religious movement: anchorites and beguines
4 Anchoritic spirituality
5 Lay piety
Part II Pastoralia and vernacular pastoral literature
6 Pastoralia
7 The rhetoric of preaching
8 Beguine sermons
9 Pastoral literature
Part III Ancrene Wisse: text and context
10 The rhetoric of Ancrene Wisse
i. Structure
ii. Exempla and similitudines
11 Ancrene Wisse: asceticism and contemplation
12 Reading Ancrene Wisse as vernacular spirituality
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Denis Renevey
“ . . . an argument that takes into consideration the most up-to-date information on the text and its contexts.” –Denis Renevey, Chair of Medieval English, Université de Lausanne
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