Ancrene Wisse / Guide for Anchoresses: A Translation

Ancrene Wisse / Guide for Anchoresses: A Translation

by Liverpool University Press
Ancrene Wisse / Guide for Anchoresses: A Translation

Ancrene Wisse / Guide for Anchoresses: A Translation

by Liverpool University Press

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Overview

This early thirteenth-century West Midlands guide for women recluses is not only one of the major works of early Middle English prose, but is also a key document for the development of medieval spirituality. It reflects the 'democratization' of religious experience which was one of the outcomes of the 'Medieval Reformation'. Drawing on new kinds of pastoral literature designed to appeal to a more general audience, the insight, wit and charm of Ancrene Wisse led to its adaptation for other readers, both religious and lay, and it continued in use until the end of the Middle Ages. This new annotated translation, based on the text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402, incorporates the most recent research on Ancrene Wisse's contemporary context and offers an accessible, up-to-date introduction for both scholars and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780859897754
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: 09/15/2009
Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies LUP
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Bella Millett is a Professor of English at the University of Southampton. The main focus of her research has been on a group of West Midlands prose works, and she has edited Hali Meithhad (1982), co-edited Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse (1990) with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and has jointly produced an annotated bibliography, Ancrene Wisse, The Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group (1996).

Table of Contents

Preface to this edition

Introduction
1. Ancrene Wisse and its Contexts
2. Sources and Analogues
3. The Form of the Work
4. The Textual History of Ancrene Wisse
5. This Translation

Guide for Anchoresses
Preface
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Explanatory Notes

Bibliography
1. A Note on Further Reading
2. Abbreviations and Short Titles
3. Editions and Secondary Works

General Index
Scriptural Quotations Index
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