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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"ancrene wisse"”.
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The Art of Arts: Theorising Pastoral Power in the English Middle Ages
… that of body and spirit. The second turns to the Ancrene Wisse, arguing that the it responds to the developments of twelfth-century spirituality by suggesting a form of spiritual engagement that is increasingly imbricated in the mundane world. The second half of the thesis focuses on a number of …
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‘Spered in an hous aloone’: Enduring Spiritual Enclosure in the Middle Ages
… of Saint Bertin’s 'Liber Confortatorius', 'Ancrene Wisse', and Julian of Norwich’s 'Revelations', all of which acknowledge and seek to ease the affective difficulties of living in confinement. The third chapter considers the peculiarities of time inside the medieval spiritual cell, exploring …
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The Spiritual Pedagogy of the Cloud-author
… as later ‘simulated dialogues’ in the anonymous *Ancrene Wisse*, the Latin Franciscan *Meditationes Vitae Christi*, and Walter Hilton’s *Scale of Perfection*. I suggest that the *Cloud*-author develops his own distinctive version of the pedagogic dialogue format to simulate the effects of an …
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Using Animals: the use of non-human animals from the material to the metaphorical, 1100-1380
This thesis applies Animal Studies theory to a selection of texts from medieval literature and visual culture. In particular, it is concerned with the ways that the ‘fact of interaction’ impacts on an evaluation of non–human animal (NHA) and human–animal relationships. The thesis re–examines a …