{"product_id":"medieval-anchoritisms-liz-herbert-mcavoy-9781843842774","title":"Medieval Anchoritisms: Gender, Space and the Solitary Life","description":"An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginating in the deserts of northern Africa in the early years of Christianity, anchoritism, or the enclosed solitary life, gradually metamorphosed into a permanent characteristic of European religiosity; from the twelfth century onwards, and throughout the middle ages, it was embraced with increasing enthusiasm, by devoted laywomen in particular.\u003cbr\u003e This book investigates the wider cultural importance of medieval anchoritism within the different religious landscapes and climates of the period. Drawing upon a range of contemporary gender and spatial theories, it focuses on the gender dynamics of this remarkable way of life, and the material spaces which they generated and within which they operated. As such, it unites related - but too often discrete - areas of scholarship, including early Christian anchoritism, anchoritic guidance texts and associated works, fourteenth and fifteenth-century holy womenwith close anchoritic connections, and a range of other less known works dealing with or connected to the anchoritic life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dr LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY is Senior Lecturer in Gender in English and Medieval Studies at Swansea University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Liz Herbert McAvoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1843842777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781843842774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell \u0026amp; Brewer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Liz Herbert McAvoy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46881141063935,"sku":"9781843842774","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8225dc00-2446-46b1-807d-6a86ce8a8d9c.jpg?v=1747970799","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/medieval-anchoritisms-liz-herbert-mcavoy-9781843842774","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}