Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages

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Foreword: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker Introduction: Liz Herbert McAvoy and Mari Hughes-Edwards Inclusive Language: Some Reflections on Wombs and Tombs - Alexandra Barratt Guthlac A and Guthlac B Changing Metaphors for a Dying Hermit - Santha Bhattacharji Representations of the Anchoritic Life in Goscelin of St-Bertin's Liber Confortatorius - Rebecca Hayward Male and Female Cistercians and their Gendered Experiences of the Margins, the Wilderness and the Periphery - Elizabeth Freeman The White Friars' Return to Carmel - Johan Bergstom-Allen Crepe into that blessed syde Enclosure Imagery in Aelred of Rievaulx's De Institutione Inclusarum and its Middle English Redaction - Kristen McQuinn Gladly Alone: Isolation and Exile in English Mystical Experience - Susannah Chewning Anchoritic Elements of Holkham Misc. 41 - Catherine Innes-Parker I was confused and cried: The Carthusian Dionysius of Ryckel (c. 1402/03-1471), Masculinity and Late Medieval Mysticism - Ulrike Wiethaus ... wrapt as if to the third heaven Gender and Contemplative Experience in Late-Medieval Anchoritic Guidance Writing - Mari Hughes-Edwards In Praise of Whips: Mortification of the Flesh in Ancrene Wisse - Bob Hasenfratz Beyond the Tomb: Ancrene Wisse and Lay Piety - Cate Gunn Voice beyond the Grave: Margery Kempe, 'deuoute ancres...of Lynne' - Liz Herbert McAvoy

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