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Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden and Roger Ellis, eds.
Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts.
Published Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005.
Series: Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching and Research.
ISBN 1843840499.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printer: Athenaeum Press, Gateshead.
Size: 159x238x19mm.
Page count: xvi,213pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition poor to fair: this copy has a heavy split along one side of the spine covering, although the binding itself is otherwise sound; some marks and blotches on the boards, page edges and endpapers starting to fox a little; otherwise looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price £50.00/$90.00]
Weight without packaging: 604g.

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Contents:
Jones, Anchorites & hermits in historical context;
Dyas, The wilderness & medieval anchoritic spirituality;
Edden, Devotional life of the laity in the late Middle Ages;
Bhattacharji, Medieval contemplation & mystical experience;
Renevey, Richard Rolle;
Spearing, Language & its limits — Cloud of Unknowing & Pearl;
Bestul, Walter Hilton;
McAvoy, Julian of Norwich & her audience, past, present & future;
Windeatt, Teaching & The Book of Margery Kempe;
Barratt, Teaching anchoritic texts;
Allen, Introducing the mystics;
Ellis, Another approach to the Middle English mystics;
Hitchison, Approaching medieval women mystics in the 21st century;
Glasscoe, Contexts for teaching Julian of Norwich.
Appendix: Innes-Parker, Learning by doing — Margery Kempe & students today.

Illustrations: 2, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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