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Record Number:
3326
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Watson , Nicholas.
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Title:
Ancrene Wisse, Religious Reform and the Late Middle Ages [The author examines later Middle English texts that borrowed heavily from the "Ancrene Wisse." For the most part their authors were interested in adapting the anchoritic life for devout lay men and women. In some cases the texts have a pronounced puritan streak. The "Ancrene Wisse's" theme of living a life of perfection appealed to many reformist authors in fourteenth century England. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
A Companion to "Ancrene Wisse." Edited by Yoko Wada. D. S. Brewer, 2003. Pages 197 - 226.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
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Adaptations
Ancrene Wisse, Middle English Devotional Work
Devotional Literature
Ecclesiastical Reform
Lay Piety
Theology
Vernacular Language
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14- 15
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Nicholas Watson's essay "Ancrene Wisse, Religious Reform and the Late Middle Ages," focuses on the text's importance to vernacular writers and readers in the period c. 1370-1450, when most of the surviving Middle English religious prose was written (197).
Author's Affiliation:
Harvard University
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
2003.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0859917622