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

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

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

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

This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the...

This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the...

This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...