Table Of ContentReligion & 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
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RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Anchoritism in the Middle Ages
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Series Editors
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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RELIGION AND 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
CARDIFF
2013
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© the Contributors, 2013
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Contents
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 kukita yoshikawa
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 SANCTITy IN HAGIOGRAPHICAL 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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vi CONTENTS
III ANCHORITIC TExTS 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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series editors’ PrefaCe
Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages aims to explore the interface between medi-
eval religion and culture, with as broad an understanding of those terms as possible. It
puts to the forefront studies which engage with works that significantly contributed to
the shaping of medieval culture. However, it also gives attention to studies dealing with
works that reflect 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 field of religion and culture, we also want to explore further the
roles played by women as authors, readers and owners of books, thereby defining them
more precisely as actors in the cultural field. 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 confinement 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 under-
standing of medieval culture. We want the series to reflect 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
reflects diversity and difference, however difficult it may sometimes have proved for
medieval culture to accept these notions.
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