Hermits and Anchorites in England, 1200-1550 - (Manchester Medieval Sources) by E A Jones & Rosemary Horrox & Simon MacLean (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book provides an unprecedented range of sources for the solitary life in late-medieval England, including many that have never before been published, alongside a scholarly introduction and commentary by one of the foremost experts in the field.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It covers both enclosed recluses (anchorites) and free-wandering hermits, and explores the relationship between them. Although there has been a recent surge of interest in the solitary vocations, especially anchorites, this has focused almost exclusively on a small number of examples. The field is in need of reinvigoration, and this book provides it. Featuring translated extracts from a wide range of Latin, Middle English and Old French sources, as well as a scholarly introduction and commentary from one of the foremost experts in the field, <i>Hermits and anchorites in England </i>is an invaluable resource for students and lecturers alike.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It covers both enclosed recluses (anchorites) and free-wandering hermits, and explores the relation between them. Although there has been a recent surge of interest in the solitary vocations, especially anchorites, this has focused almost exclusively on a small number of examples. The field is in need of reinvigoration, which this book provides. The book begins with Lateran IV's legislation on 'new orders' - designed to curtail the monastic experiments in eremitical living of the preceding century - and the two highpoints of central-medieval anchoritic guidance, Aelred's letter to his sister and <i>Ancrene Wisse</i>. It ends 250 years later, taking in the Dissolution of the Monasteries but looking beyond it to the fates of individual solitaries in its aftermath and the transition of the hermit from active and valued part of the religious landscape to antiquarian curiosity. Featuring translated extracts from a wide range of Latin, Middle English and Old French sources, as well as a scholarly introduction and commentary from one of the foremost experts in the field, <i>Hermits and anchorites in England </i>is an invaluable resource for students and lecturers alike.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'<i>Hermits and Anchorites in England, 1200-1550</i>, the latest addition to the Manchester Medieval Sources series, serves as a complement to this literary and spiritual emphasis (11), presenting an extraordinarily rich range of extracts translated from Latin, French and Middle English primary sources, which collectively illuminate the more external and material aspects of the solitary vocation. [...] . This unparalleled command of the field makes him the ideal expositor of these complex, often obscure sources, allowing him to shape them into a series of coherent narratives. The international community of anchoritic scholars will be indebted to this work and the insights it enables for many decades to come.' TMR - Christiania Whitehead<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>E. A. Jones is Associate Professor in English Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter
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