Lives of the Anchoresses

Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2005

Lives of the Anchoresses

The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe

Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
Translated by: Myra Heerspink Scholz

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202861

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About this book

In cities and towns across northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman took up authoritative though solitary positions in medieval society. Mulder-Bakker offers a new history of these women and their roles as counselors, theological innovators, and public recluses.

Author information

Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker is a senior lecturer in history and medieval studies at the University of Groningen. She is the author many books in Dutch, including Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550 and is editor of The Invention of Saintliness and Sanctity and Motherhood: Essays on Holy Mothers in the Middle Ages.

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"We are blessed here with a study of rare insight and perception into the functioning of lay religious devotion in northwestern Europe and its interaction with institutionalized and learned clerical religion."—Speculum

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Bees Without a King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Mother of Guibert of Nogent: The Age of Discretion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Yvette of Huy: The Metamorphoses of a Woman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4. Juliana of Cornillon, Church Reform, and the Corpus Christi Feast Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
5. Eve of St. Martin, the Faithful of Liege, and the Church Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
6. Lame Margaret of Magdeburg and Her Lessons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
7. Living Saints Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
8. Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: History; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Religion; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Gender Studies; Religious Studies

eBook

Published: June 15, 2013
ISBN: 9780812202861