Rhetoric of the anchorhold : space, place and body within the discourses of enclosure

Folger bibliographic ID: 224330
Folger call number: BX2847.G7 R44 2008
Folger holdings ID: 255036

Contents

Introduction: place, space and the body within Anchoritic rhetoric / Liz Herbert McAvoy -- Spaces of reclusion: notarial records of urban eremeticism in Medieval Siena / Allison Clark -- Ceremonies of enclosure: rite, rhetoric and reality / E. A. Jones -- "He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting": rhetoric and audience in the works of the Ancrene Wisse group / Bella Millett -- Private meditations and public discourse: Ancrene Wisse and sermon rhetoric / Cate Gunn -- Inner space as speaking space in Ancrene Wisse / Anna McHugh -- Privacy, exile and the rhetoric of solitude in the Medieval English Anchoritic tradition / Michelle M. Sauer -- Gender, rhetoric and space in the Speculum inclusorum, Letter to a Bury Recluse and the strange case of Christina Carpenter / Liz Herbert McAvoy -- Julian of Norwich and St Bridget of Sweden: creating intimate space with God / Laure Saetveit Miles -- Julian of Norwich and the rhetoric of the impersonal / Fumiko Yoshikawa -- From Anchorhold to cell of self-knowledge: points along a history of the human body / Anne Savage -- The childhood of Christ and the infancy of the soul in Aelred's De Iesu Puero Duodenni / Robin Gilbank -- Eremita et Latro: discourse of hermits and robbers as the "rhetoric of the outsider" / Karl-Heinz Steinmetz

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-219) and index

Extended title: Rhetoric of the anchorhold : space, place and body within the discourses of enclosure / edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy

Christian literature, English (Middle) Mysticism Hermits

associated with: Herbert McAvoy, Liz