Medieval Anchorites in their Communities

Introduction - Liz Herbert McAvoy and Cate Gunn'O Sely Ankir!' - E.A. JonesThe Anchoress of Colne Priory: A Solitary in Community - Cate GunnAnchorites in their Heavenly Communities - Sophie Sawicka-SykesRule Within Rule, Cell Within Cloister: Grimlaicus's Regula Solitariorum - Andrew ThorntonEnglish Nuns as 'Anchoritic Intercessors' for Souls in Purgatory: The Employment of A Revelation of Purgatory by Late Medieval English Nunneries for Their Lay Communities - Clarck Drieshen'In anniversaries of ower leoveste freond seggeth alle nihene': Anchorites, Chantries and Purgatorial Patronage in Medieval England - Michelle M. Sauer'Item receyvyd of ye Anker': The Relationships between a Parish and its Anchorites as seen through the Churchwardens' Accounts - Clare DowdingThe Curious Incident of the Hermit in Fisherton - James PlumtreeWas Julian's nightmare a Mare? Julian of Norwich and the Vernacular Community of Storytellers - Godelinde Gertrude PerkAnchoritic Textual Communities and the Wooing Group Prayers - Catherine Innes-ParkerThe Anchoress Transformed: On wel swude god ureisun of God almihti and the wohunge of ure lauerd in the Fourteenth-Century A Talkyng of the Love of God - Diana DenissenAncrene Wisse and the Egerton Hours - Dorothy KimBibliographyIndex