Anchoritic Spirituality: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Works
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
In the first quarter of the thirteenth 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 multifaceted spirituality different from that of other mystics.
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Key Features
- An ancient example of classic mystical spirituality presented in an accessible form
- Fully integrates and cross references with other resources from your Logos library
- Allows modern readers to better understand the role of anchoresses in the life of the medieval church
About the Translators
Anne Savage is a translator known for her work on The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.
Nicholas Watson (Professor of English and once and future chair of Medieval Studies at Harvard) is a scholar of medieval English and North European literature, Christianity, and intellectual history, with special interests in the role of the written vernacular during the five centuries before the Reformation, in visionary and mystical writing, in medieval literary theory and sociolinguistics and in historiography.