Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the mos...

The practice of anchoritism - religious enclosure which was frequently solitary and voluntarily e...

By the middle of the nineteenth century Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was probably the most famous nat...

The training and use of memory was crucial in medieval culture, given the limited literacy at the...

Originating in the deserts of northern Africa in the early years of Christianity, anchoritism, or...

Much of the research into medieval anchoritism to date has focused primarily on its liminal and e...

A Revelation of Purgatory was written by a female anchorite living in Winchester during the secon...

During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestatio...

Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyo...

Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of ...

This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally. Focusing...