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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Eremitic"”.
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Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae: Amendinge of Lyf, a Middle English translation, edited from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 432
… that the adaptation of traditionally eremitic contemplative writings for a general audience, so widespread in the fifteenth-century, was already stirring in Rolle’s day. Secondly, I look in detail at a specific crosssection of Rolle’s early readership: a translator, several scribes and …
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‘Spered in an hous aloone’: Enduring Spiritual Enclosure in the Middle Ages
… it picks apart the exemplary reputation of the eremitic life in both medieval literature and subsequent scholarship. By emphasising the intensity of the cell-bound life and the tensions which persist even (or sometimes especially) when it is chosen voluntarily, this thesis argues that its …