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Ancrene Wisse

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Ancrene Wisse or the Anchoresses Guide (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402), written sometime roughly between 1225 and 1240, represents a revision of an earlier work, usually called the Ancr...
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Ancrene Wisse or the Anchoresses Guide (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402), written sometime roughly between 1225 and 1240, represents a revision of an earlier work, usually called the Ancrene Riwle or Anchorites' Rule, a book of religious instruction for three lay women of noble birth.
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Price: £35.00
Pages: 702
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Imprint: Medieval Institute Publications
Series: TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
Publication Date: 03 January 2001
ISBN: 9781580440707
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

HISTORY / General, History and Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Spirituality and religious experience, Christianity, History of religion, European history: medieval period, middle ages
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Robert Hasenfratz is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He is editor of Mystics Quarterly, soon to become The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures; co-author with Thomas Jambeck of Reading Old English (2005); and producer of Lingua Latina, aka WinLatin, a Latin drill program for Windows XP.
Preface

Introduction

Ancrene Wisse 's Place in Literary History

The Anchoritic Life

Authorship

Audience

Date

Structure

Language

Manuscripts

Related Texts

Critical Reception

The Question of Mysticism

Editorial Principles

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Ancrene Wisse

Author's Preface

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

Part Seven

Part Eight

Explanatory Notes

Textual Notes

Appendices

One: Motif and Exempla Index

Two: Proper Names Index

Glossary