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Yoko Wada, ed.
A Companion to Ancrene Wisse.
Published Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003.
ISBN 0859917622.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printed in the UK: Cromwell Press, Trowbridge.
Size: 162×239×25mm.
Page count: xii,258pp.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: these copies are not supplied shrink-wrapped, so may show some evidence of handling, the usual mild scuffs & marks etc.

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[Publisher’s price £60.00/$105.00]
Weight without packaging: 569g.

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The thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse (aka Ancrene Riwle) is a guide for female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth, it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do, offering in its examples a glimpse of the real life women had in England in the middle ages. It is also important for its evidence for the continuation of the Anglo-Saxon tradition of prose writing, being produced in the West Midlands where Old English writing conventions continued to develop even after the Norman conquest. The Companion addresses the cultural and historical background, the affiliations of the versions, genre, authorship and language; the various approaches also include a feminist reading of the text.

Contents:
Yoko Wada, What is Ancrene Wisse?;
Bella Millett, The Genre of Ancrene Wisse;
Anne Savage, The Communal Authorship of Ancrene Wisse;
Richard Dance, The AB Language: the Recluse, The Gossip and the Language Historian;
D. A. Trotter, The Anglo-French lexis of Ancrene Wisse: a re-evaluation;
A. S. G. Edwards, The Middle English Manuscripts and Early Readers of Ancrene Wisse;
Elizabeth Robertson, ‘This Living Hand’: Thirteenth-Century Female Literacy and the Female Reader of Ancrene Wisse;
Catherine Innes-Parker, The Legacy of Ancrene Wisse: Translations, Adaptations, Influences and Audience, with Special Attention to Women Readers;
Christina von Nolcken, ‘The Recluse’ and its Readers: Some Observations on a Lollard Interpolated Version of Ancrene Wisse;
Nicholas Watson, Ancrene Wisse, Religious Reform and the Late Middle Ages;
Roger Dahood, Ancrene Wisse and the Identities of Mary Salome.

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