Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs

Liz Herbert McAvoy, Mari Hughes-Edwards

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
• Ranging from studies of the influence of desert eremiticism upon a variety of expressions of religious enclosure in England to the sexualized spiritua... Lees meer

The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500, Volume One

Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt

• Hardcover | Engels | History of British Women's Writing | nr. 1
• This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity under... Lees meer

The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500, Volume One

Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt

• Paperback | Engels | History of British Women's Writing | nr. 1
• This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity under... Lees meer

The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary

Liz Herbert McAvoy

• Hardcover | Engels | Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages | nr. 4
• During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - wa... Lees meer

Medieval Anchoritisms

Liz Herbert McAvoy

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 6
• Originating in the deserts of northern Africa in the early years of Christianity, anchoritism, or the enclosed solitary life, gradually metamorphosed ... Lees meer

Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe

Liz Herbert McAvoy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval Mysticism | nr. 5
• By the middle of the nineteenth century Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was probably the most famous native-born musician in America. Concentrating almost ex... Lees meer

The History of British Women's Writing, 700-1500

Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt

• Paperback | Engels | History of British Women's Writing
• This volume, now available in paperback for the first time, focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500, a period traditionall... Lees meer

The Book of Margery Kempe

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Medieval Women
• Margery Kempe's text draws on her maternal, female body to illuminate her relationship to the divine. A unique narrative of sin, sex and salvation, Th... Lees meer