Speculum Inclusorum / A Mirror for Recluses
E.A. Jones
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Hardcover. This is a critical parallel-text edition of the Latin Speculum Inclusorum - a late-medieval English 'rule' for male anchorites - and its Middle English translation, A Mirror for Recluses. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 colour plates, 2 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HRCV; HRCX8. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
Interest in the anchoritic life in Europe, and medieval England in particular, has never been greater. And yet almost all the recent discussion tends to concentrate on the same texts – De Institutione inclusarum and Ancrene Wisse. Considerations of gender and anchoritism have been limited by the assumption that the reclusive life was ‘a feminine phenomenon’ pursued almost exclusively by women. This critical edition of a late-medieval English ‘rule’ for male anchorites is a timely intervention in – and stimulus to – an already exciting field.
The Speculum Inclusorum is an early 15th-century Latin rule or guide. It is notable ... Read more
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Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859898850
SKU
V9780859898850
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About E.A. Jones
E. A. Jones is Professor of English Medieval Literature and Culture, University of Exeter and Series Editor of Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies.
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