The cover of “Canticle” depicts a woman in a vibrant red, hooded cloak swirling away from the reader. It hints at what’s inside: a mystical story that immerses us in an earlier century, in the vein of ...
The originality of Linda Georgianna’s The Solitary, Self is that it takes the Ancrene Wisse seriously as a highly integrated unity. The traditional view of this early thirteenth-century work is that ...
The cover of “Canticle” depicts a woman in a vibrant red, hooded cloak swirling away from the reader. It hints at what’s inside: a mystical story that immerses us in an earlier century, in the vein of ...
Ayoush Lazikani does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Caitriona Dowden’s sophomore Fringe offering is a marginally lower-concept prospect than last year’s debut, in which she used her encyclopaedic knowledge of medieval religion to try to secure herself ...
The Revd Dr Karen E. Smith was surprised with the presentation of a new volume published in her honour at this year’s Baptist Historical Society Summer Conference Remembered Sisters: Essays in Honour ...
Janina Ramirez uncovers a 500-year-old story about a woman who chose to run away from this world by bricking herself into a tiny cell for life in the middle of a busy Dutch city. Show more Who of us ...
In this time of instant gratification, it’s nearly impossible to grasp the concept of an anchoress. During the Middle Ages, an anchoress (a female anchorite) would be confined in a cell adjacent to an ...
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