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

Tom Licence discovers why medieval society invested so much in hermits and recluses, and examines how they gained their saintly reputation.

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

This volume of essays focuses on how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons.