Essays challenging the orthodox opinion of anchorites as entirely divorced from the world around them.

This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of the solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It covers both enclosed anchorites or recl

Translation and facing text of an important female-authored work from the late middle ages.

An examination of the growth and different varieties of anchoritism throughout medieval Europe.

This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as t