Angels and Anchoritic Culture in Late Medieval England

Cover
Angels and Anchoritic Culture in Late Medieval England
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Anchoritic Communities
	Charismatics in a Reforming Culture
	From Transformation to Transfiguration: Reform and the Angelic Image
	The Contributions of This Book
1: The Arrival of Angels
	Bodies in Crisis: Monastic and Clerical Reforms
	Challenges to the Angelic Priesthood
	Rival Angels: Charismatic Forms of Spiritual Power
	Angels and the Enclosure
	Conclusion
2: Charismatic Anchorites and the Making of Truth
	Cistercians, Visions, and Spiritual Discernment
	When the Cistercians Came: Angelic Visitation in Monastic Guise
	From the Apostolic Life to Clerical Visitation
	From Apostolic to Sacramental Visions
	Conclusion
3: Lay Preaching and Living Saints
	Prophets and Preachers
	Authority and the Devoured Body
	The New Saints in Thirteenth-Century England
	Conclusion
4: The Angel, the Confessor, and the Anchoress
	The Perils of Angelic Consolation
	Between Confession and Investigation
	Hypocrisy and the Discerning Subject
	Conclusion
5: The Transformation of Perfection
	Women, Eucharistic Vision, and Doubt
	The Transformation of Gifts
	The Gift of Angelic Sweetness
	Conclusion
6: A Mirror of Clerical Authority
	Contested Perfections and the Suffering Christ
	Discernment, Mediation, and Clerical Authority
	At the Threshold: Mary Magdalene and the Resurrection
	Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
	Primary Sources
	Secondary Sources
Index