Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages.(Book review)

From: Medium Aevum | Date: March 22, 2006 | Copyright information

Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages, ed. Liz McAvoy and Mari Hughes-Edwards, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005), xiv + 226 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1863-0. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays, the fruits of a conference held in 2002, makes an interesting and valuable contribution to the University of Wales Press's Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages Series. The book focuses on how ideas of gender intersected with the phenomenon of anchoritism, and on the making and influence ...

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