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A Companion to Ancrene Wisse

by Yoko Wada , A. S. G. Edwards , Anne Savage
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781843842439
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
  • Publisher Imprint: Boydell & Brewer
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: GBP 26.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 386 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Medieval

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

The thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse is a guide for female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth, it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do, offering in its examples a glimpse of the real life women had in England in the middle ages. It is also important for its evidence for the continuation of the Anglo-Saxon tradition of prose writing, being produced in the West Midlands where Old English writing conventions continued to develop even after the Norman conquest. The Companion addresses the cultural and historical background, the affiliations of the versions, genre, authorship and language; the various approaches also includea feminist reading of the text.

Contributors: ROGER DAHOOD, RICHARD DANCE, A.S.G. EDWARDS, CATHERINE INNES-PARKER, BELLA MILLETT, CHRISTINA VON NOLCKEN, ELIZABETH ROBERTSON, ANNE SAVAGE, D.A. TROTTER, YOKO WADA, NICHOLAS WATSON.

Edwards, A. S. G.: - A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Watson, Nicholas: - NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular.

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