Rhetoric of the Anchorhold
Space, Place and Body Within Discourses of Enclosure
Distributed for University of Wales Press
224 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2008
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Table of Contents

Contents
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures, Tables and Plates
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Place, Space and the Body within Anchoritic Rhetoric
Liz Herbert McAvoy
I Public Performance: Rhetoric and Place
2 Spaces of Reclusion: Notarial Records of Urban Eremeticism in Medieval Siena
Allison Clark
3 Ceremonies of Enclosure: Rite, Rhetoric and Reality
E.A. Jones
4 ’He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting’" Rhetoric and Audience in the Works of the Ancrene Wisse Group
Bella Millett
5 Private Meditations and Public Discourse: Ancrene Wisse and Sermon Rhetoric
Cate Gunn
II Private Performance: Rhetoric and Space
6 Inner Space as Speaking Space in Ancrene Wisse
Anna McHugh
7 Privacy, Exile and the Rhetoric of Solitude in the Medieval English Anchoritic Tradition
Michelle M. Sauer
8 Gender, Rhetoric and Space in the Speculum Inclusorum, Letter to a Bury Recluse and the Strange Case of Christina Carpenter
Liz Herbert McAvoy
9 Julian of Norwich and St Bridget of Sweden: Creating Intimate Space with God
Laura Saetveit Miles
10 Julian of Norwich and the Rhetoric of the Impersonal
Fumiko Yoshikawa
III Bodily Performance: Rhetoric and Corporeality
11 From Anchorhold to Cell of Self-Knowledge: Points along a History of the Human Body
Anne Savage
12 The Childhood of Christ and the Infancy of the Soul in Aelred’s De Iesu Puero Duodenni
Robin Gilbank
13 Eremita et Latro: Discourses of Hermits and Robbers as the ’Rhetoric of the Outsider’
Karl-Heinz Steinmetz
Select Bibliography
Appendix: The Letters Concerning the Enclosure of Christina Carpenter
Index
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