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Record Number:
8950
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Beckwith , Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Passionate Regulation: Enclosure, Ascesis, and the Feminist Imaginary [The author examines the ways in which the body of the anchoress in the "Ancrene Wisse" is controlled through practices including confession, asceticism, regulation of the senses, and physical enactments of "imitatio Christi"].
Source:
South Atlantic Quarterly 93, 4 (Fall 1994): Pages 803 - 824.
Description:
Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Anchoresses
Ancrene Wisse, Middle English Devotional Work
Body
Confession, Sacrament
Feminist Theory
Sins
Women in Religion
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
13
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Table:
Abstract:
Author's Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
1994.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
00382876