Anchoritism in the Middle Ages

Description

This volume explores medieval anchoritism (the life of a solitary religious recluse) from a variety of perspectives. The individual essays conceive anchoritism in broadly interpretive categories: challenging perceived notions of the very concept of anchoritic 'rule' and guidance; studying the interaction between language and linguistic forms; addressing the connection between anchoritism and other forms of solitude (particularly in European tales of sanctity); and exploring the influence of anchoritic literature on lay devotion. As a whole, the volume illuminates the richness and fluidity of anchoritic texts and contexts and shows how anchoritism pervaded the spirituality of the Middle Ages, for lay and religious alike. It moves through both space and time, ranging from the third century to the sixteenth, from England to the Continent and back.
Introduction Catherine Innes-Parker and Naoe KukitaYoshikawa Part One: Traditions of Anchoritic Guidance 1. Can there be such a thing as an 'anchoritic rule'? Bella Millet 1. The Role of the Anchoritic Guidance Writer: Goscelin of St. Bertin Mari Hughes-Edwards 2. Logical Discourse Markers in Julian of Norwich Fumiko Yoshikawa Part Two: Enclosure and Sanctity in Hagiographical Tradition 3. Heresy and Heterodoxy: The Feminized Trinities of Marguerite Porete and Julian of Norwich Jane Chance 4. Hagiography and Idealism: St Dympna of Geel, an Uncanny Saint Juliana Dresvina 5. Bridal Mysticism and the Politics of the Anchorhold: Dorothy of Montau Sieglinde Hartmann Part Three: Anchoritic Texts and Traditions in the Lay World 6. Secularization in Ancrene Wisse, Part 1: The 'Pater noster', 'Credo', and 'Ave' Chiyoko Inosaki 7. Reading and Devotional Practice: The Wooing Group Prayers of British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.xiv Catherine Innes-Parker 8. Carmelite Spirituality and the Laity in the Late Medieval England Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa 9. Printing and Reading Walter Hylton in Early Tudor England Satoko Tokunaga

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Philosophie et théologie
• Monasticism

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 30 avril 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708326039
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Religion & Culture in the Middle Ages
Anchoritism in the
Middle Ages
Texts and Traditions
Edited by
Catherine Innes-Parker
and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
University of Wales Press
Royal RCMA cover template.indd 1 14/03/2013 14:35:29Royal RCMA cover template.indd 2 14/03/2013 14:35:29RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Anchoritism in the Middle Ages
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Denis Renevey (University of Lausanne)
Diane Watt (University of Surrey)
Editorial Board
Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London)
Jean- Claude Schmitt (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Fiona Somerset (Duke University)
Christiania Whitehead (University of Warwick)
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Anchoritism in the Middle Ages
TEx TS AND TRADITIONS
edited by
CATHERINE INNES-PARk ER AND NAOË k Uk ITA y OSHIk AWA
UNIVERSITy OF WALES PRESS
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2013
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Series Editors’ Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
Introduction 1
Catherine Innes-Parker and Naoë k ukita y oshikawa
I TRADITIONS OF ANCHORITIC GUIDANCE
1 Can There Be Such a Thing as an ‘Anchoritic Rule’? 11
Bella Millet
2 The Role of the Anchoritic Guidance Writer: Goscelin of St Bertin 31
Mari Hughes-Edwards
3 Logical Discourse Markers in Julian of Norwich 47
Fumiko yoshikawa
II ENCLOSURE AND SANCTITyINHAGIOGRAPHICAL TRADITION
4 Heresy and Heterodoxy: The Feminized Trinities of Marguerite Porete
and Julian of Norwich 61
Jane Chance
5 Hagiography and Idealism: St Dympna of Geel, an Uncanny Saint 83
Juliana Dresvina
6 Bridal Mysticism and the Politics of the Anchorhold: Dorothy of Montau 101
Sieglinde Hartmann
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III ANCHORITIC TEx TS AND TRADITIONS IN THE LAy WORLD
7 Secularization in Ancrene Wisse, Part 1: The ‘Pater noster’, ‘Credo’ and ‘Ave’ 117
Chiyoko Inosaki
8 Reading and Devotional Practice: The Wooing Group Prayers of
British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.xiv 137
Catherine Innes-Parker
9 Carmelite Spirituality and the Laity in Late Medieval England 151
Naoë kukitayoshikawa
10 Printing and Reading Walter Hilton in Early Tudor England 163
Satoko Tokunaga
Bibliography 177
Index 197
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Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages aims to explore the interface between
medieval religion and culture, with as broad an understanding of those terms as possible. It
puts to the forefront studies which engage with works that signifcantly contributed to
the shaping of medieval culture. However, it also gives attention to studies dealing with
works that refect and highlight aspects of medieval culture that have been neglected in
the past by scholars of the medieval disciplines. For example, devotional works and the
practice they infer illuminate our understanding of the medieval subject and its culture
in remarkable ways, while studies of the material space designed and inhabited by
medieval subjects yield new evidence on the period and the people who shaped it and
lived in it. In the larger feld of religion and culture, we also want to explore further the
roles played by women as authors, readers and owners of books, thereby defning them
more precisely as actors in the cultural feld. The series as a whole investigates the
European Middle Ages, from c.500 to c.1500. Our aim is to explore medieval religion
and culture with the tools belonging to such disciplines as, among others, art history,
philosophy, theology, history, musicology, the history of medicine, and literature. In
particular, we would like to promote interdisciplinary studies, as we believe strongly
that our modern understanding of the term applies fascinatingly well to a cultural period
marked by a less tight confnement and categorization of its disciplines than the modern
period. However, our only criterion is academic excellence, with the belief that the use
of a large diversity of critical tools and theoretical approaches enables a deeper
understanding of medieval culture. We want the series to refect this diversity, as we believe
that, as a collection of outstanding contributions, it offers a more subtle representation
of a period that is marked by paradoxes and contradictions and which necessarily
refects diversity and difference, however diffcult it may sometimes have proved for
medieval culture to accept these notions.
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We would like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for funding which made
this project possible. Dylan Rose and Jennie Thompson were research assistants for this
project and the book would have been longer in the making without their help. Our
thanks also go to Dr Roger Ellis for his encouragement as we pursued this project.
Finally, we owe thanks to Sarah Lewis and Siân Chapman of the University of Wales
Press for their unfailing support, and the contributors for entrusting us with editing and
proofreading. Any shortcomings are our responsibility.
Catherine Innes-Parker and Naoë k ukitay oshikawa
.
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Plate 1 Jan van Wavere (?) , St Dympna altarpiece, c.1515 (made in Mechelen/Brussels
for the Church of St Dympna, Geel). Image courtesy of Royal Institute for Cultural
Heritage, Brussels, © k Ik -IRPA, Brussels.
Plate 2 St Dympna, modelled on the iconography of St Margaret and St Juliana, Dutch,
nineteenth century, Geel. Image courtesy of Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage,
Brussels, © k Ik -IRPA, Brussels.
Plate 3 St Margaret Altar: north German limewood altarpiece, carved and painted, early
sixteenth century, Victoria and Albert Museum (192-1866), panels 1–4. Photo: Juliana
Dresvina.
Plate 4 Memorial brass of Henric van Tongheren (died in 1448), Geel, showing The
Virgin with the Child, fanked by St Catherine and St Dympna instead of the more
conventional St Margaret. Image courtesy of Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage,
Brussels, © k Ik -IRPA, Brussels.
Plate 5 The Holy k indred and the Trinity Triptych: St Dimpna and St Margaret (k öln,
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum). Photo: © Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Marion Mennicken,
rba_c018916
Plate 6 Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection (London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1519), STC
r14043.5. St Mary’s College, Oscott, RF7 [R00559], sig. B4. Trustees of St Mary’s
College, Oscott.
Plate 7 The Kalendre of the New Legende of Englande (London: Richard Pynson,
v1516), STC 4602, sig. y4 . The British Library, 205.c.19. © The British Library Board.
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AASS Acta Sanctorum
BMC x I: Hellinga, Lotte (ed.), The Catalogue of Books Printed in the
XVth Century Now in the British Library, Xi: England (‘t
Goy-Houten: Hes & de Graff, 2007).
CCCM Corpus Christianorum: continuatio medieualis (Turnhout,
1966).
CCSL Corpus Christianorum: series latina (Turnhout, 1953).
CSEL Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum (Vienna,
1866).
EETS Early English Text Society.
ES Extra Series
ESTC English Short Title Catalogue, http://estc.bl.uk/.
OS Original Series
PL J.-P. Migne (ed.), Patrologiae cursus completus . . . Series
Latina (Paris, 1844–65)
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notes on Contributors
Jane Chance, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor Emerita in English at Rice
University, has taught and published on medieval literature and medievalism for
fortyone years. A recipient of NEH and Guggenheim fellowships and membership in the
Institute for Advanced Study-Princeton, she has published twenty-two books, edited
three book series (including the Library of Medieval Women) and served on the
Advisory Committee of PMLA. Her most recent monograph, The Literary Subversions
of Medieval Women, New Middle Ages Series (New york: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007),
was awarded the SCMLA Prize. She has also published Woman as Hero in Old English
Literature (Syracuse, Ny: Syracuse University Press, 1986) and edited Women
Medievalists and the Academy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005).
Juliana Dresvina is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at k ing’s