LEADER 03890nam 2200601 450 001 9910795758803321 005 20220706154816.0 010 $a1-64189-487-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781641894883 035 $a(CKB)5600000000015278 035 $a(OCoLC)1276857007 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_94695 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6767897 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6767897 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781641894883 035 $a(DE-B1597)586163 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781641894883 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000015278 100 $a20220706d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe materiality of Middle English anchoritic devotion /$fedited by Michelle M. Sauer and Jenny C. Bledsoe 210 1$aLeeds :$cArc Humanities Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (138 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 0 $aEarly Middle English 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-64189-488-1 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- $tBODIES, OBJECTS, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THINGS IN EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH RECLUSION: AN INTRODUCTION -- $tCLOTHING AND FEMALE RECLUSION IN THE LIFE OF MARY OF EGYPT AND THE LIFE OF CHRISTINA OF MARKYATE -- $tMATERIALITY, DOCUMENTARY AUTHORITY, AND THE CIRCULATION OF THE KATHERINE GROUP -- $tFRAMING MATERIALITY: RELIC DISCOURSE AND MEDIEVAL ENGLISH ANCHORITISM -- $tRELICS AND THE RECLUSE?S TOUCH IN GOSCELIN?S MIRACLES OF ST. EDMUND -- $tMARY, SILENCE, AND THE FICTIONS OF POWER IN ANCRENE WISSE 2.269?481 -- $tTHE ANCHORITIC BODY AT PRAYER IN GOSCELIN OF SAINT-BERTIN?S LIBER CONFORTATORIUS -- $tSTUPOR IN JOHN OF GADDESDEN?S ROSA MEDICINAE -- $tTHE MATERIAL OF VERNACULAR ENGLISH DEVOTION: TEMPTATION AND SWEETNESS IN ANCRENE WISSE AND RICHARD ROLLE?S FORM OF LIVING -- $tTHE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF AN ANCHORITE CELL AT RUYTON, SHROPSHIRE -- $tINDEX 330 $aAnchorites and their texts, such as Ancrene Wisse, have recently undergone a reevaluation based on material circumstances, not just theological import. The articles here address a variety of anchoritic or anchoritic-adjacent texts, encompassing guidance literature, hagiographies, miracle narratives, medical discourse, and mystic prose, and spanning in date from the eighth through the fourteenth centuries. Exploring reclusion and materiality, the collection addresses a series of overlapping themes, including the importance of touch, the limits of religious authority, and the role of the senses. Objects, metaphorical and real, embodied and spiritual, populate the pages. These categories are permeable, with flexible and porous boundaries, demonstrating the conflation of ideas, concepts, and manifestations in medieval materiality. In fact, the permeability of these categories demonstrates how materiality can reshape our approach to medieval texts. It leaves room for directions for future study, including the application of material analysis to previously unstudied objects, spaces, and literary artifacts. 410 0$aEarly Middle English Bks. 606 $aChristian literature, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism 610 $aMiddle English literature. 610 $aanchorites. 610 $aancrenne wisse. 610 $aembodiment. 610 $amedieval materiality. 610 $amedieval relics. 610 $areclusion. 615 0$aChristian literature, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a248.220922 702 $aSauer$b Michelle M.$f1972- 702 $aBledsoe$b Jenny C. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795758803321 996 $aThe materiality of Middle English anchoritic devotion$93808632 997 $aUNINA