Reading Medieval Anchoritism

Mari Hughes-Edwards

Description

This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange, and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieval world.
Introduction The Origins of Anchoritism Introduction to Medieval Anchoritism Introduction to the Anchoritic Guidance Writing Genre PART ONE: ANCHORITIC SPIRITUALITY IN ISOLATION: THE ENGLISH ANCHORITIC GUIDES Chapter One: Introducing the Guides The Earlier-Medieval Guides The Later-Medieval Guides Chapter Two: Anchoritic Enclosure Permanent Fixity of Place The Purpose of Anchoritic Enclosure Anchoritic Enclosure and Living Death The Invisible Anchorhold Safeguarding Anchoritic Enclosure Chapter Three: Anchoritic Solitude and Sociability The Idealisation of Solitude Qualifying Solitude: Acceptable Anchoritic Interaction Safeguarding Solitude: Demonising Anchoritic Sociability Anchoritic Sociability and Chastity PART TWO: ANCHORITIC SPIRITUALITY IN CONTEXT: ENGLISH ANCHORITISM AND THE WIDER MEDIEVAL WORLD Chapter Four: Anchoritism and Asceticism The History of Asceticism Anchoritism and Earlier-Medieval Asceticism: Waging Ascetical War Anchoritism and Ascetical Discretion Anchoritism and Later-Medieval Asceticism: Sin-Hatred not Flesh-Hatred Purity without Pain: Ascetical Meditation Chapter Five: Anchoritism and Contemplative Experience The Vocabulary of Contemplation The Three Stages of Contemplation: Meditation, Vision, Fusion Anchoritic Contemplation and the Active/Contemplative Debate Anchoritic Contemplation and Contemplative Orthodoxy

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Philosophie et théologie
• Inglaterra
• Monasticism
• England

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708325063
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Religion & Culture in the Middle Ages

Reading Medieval Anchoritism

Ideology and Spiritual Practices

Mari Hughes-Edwards

University of Wales Press

RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Reading Medieval Anchoritism

Series Editors Denis ReneveY (UniversitY of Lausanne) Diane Watt (AberYstwYth UniversitY)

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)

RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Reading Medieval Anchoritism

IDEOLOGy AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES

MARI HUGHES-EDWARDS

UNIVERSITy OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 2012

© Mari Hughes-Edwards, 2012

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ISBN e-ISBN

978-0-7083-2504-9 (hardback) 978-0-7083-2505-6 (paperback) 978-0-7083-2506-3

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Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction

C ontents

I ANCHORITIC SPIRITUALITy IN ISOLATION: THE ENGLISH ANCHORITIC GUIDES

Introducing the Guides

Anchoritic Enclosure

Anchoritic Solitude and SociabilitY

II ANCHORITIC SPIRITUALITy IN CONTExT: ENGLISH ANCHORITISM AND THE WIDER MEDIEVAL WORLD

Anchoritism and Asceticism

Anchoritism and Contemplative EXperience Conclusion Notes AppendiX: Guidance TeXt Overview Select BibliographY IndeX

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59 81 108 111 159 169 185

Et ad astra doloribus itur (Prudentius,Cathemerinon, 10: 92)

This book is dedicated to mY parents William George and Marian JoYce Hughes-Edwards