Ancrene Wisse

Ancrene Wisse
Author: Hugh White
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1993
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Anchoritic Spirituality

Anchoritic Spirituality
Author: Anne Savage
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809132577

Sometime in the first quarter of the 13th century a number of works were written for anchoresses, women who lived as religious recluses in cells adjoining churches. The most influential is Ancrene Wisse (A Guide for Anchoresses), which discusses in great detail the daily life of the anchoress, both outer and inner. This work gives a detailed sense of a powerful and multi-faceted spirituality different from that of other mystics.

A Companion to Ancrene Wisse

A Companion to Ancrene Wisse
Author: Yoko Wada
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1843842432

Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise.

Ancrene Wisse

Ancrene Wisse
Author: Cate Gunn
Publisher: University of Wales
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0708320341

An introduction to 'Ancrene Wisse', one of the most important works in English of the 13th century. It offers a new contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages.

The Solitary Self

The Solitary Self
Author: Linda Georgianna
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1981
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674817517

The Ancrene Wisse is a spiritual guide for female recluses, written at the request of three anchoresses who were voluntarily enclosed for life within small cells. Georgianna analyzes this complex and skillfully composed treatise and examines its detailed portrayal of the rich, alternately rewarding and frustrating inner life of the solitary.

Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group

Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group
Author: Bella Millett
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780859914291

Bibliography of prose works offering unique evidence for the nature of women's religious experience in medieval England, with scholarly introduction.

Ancrene Wisse

Ancrene Wisse
Author: Bella Millett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2005
Genre: Ancren riwle
ISBN:

Ancrene wisse

Ancrene wisse
Author: Robert J. Hasenfratz
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN:

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.