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The Ancrene Wisse Group

The Ancrene Wisse Group
The Ancrene Wisse Group
This chapter offers an overview of the ten Middle English religious prose works belonging to the 'Ancrene Wisse' Group (named from its longest and most influential work, a guide for anchoresses), and also outlines a 'unified theory' of their origin which attempts to explain their combination of older native and contemporary Continental influences, placing them in a West Midlands diocesan context and seeing them as the product of the European movement of pastoral reform that culminated in the Fourth Lateran Council.
1843840189
1-17
Boydell & Brewer
Millett, Bella
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Edwards, A.S.G.
Millett, Bella
99523544-2312-4078-97f1-c6d4eb8edd39
Edwards, A.S.G.

Millett, Bella (2004) The Ancrene Wisse Group. In, Edwards, A.S.G. (ed.) A Companion to Middle English prose. Woodbridge, UK. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 1-17.

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This chapter offers an overview of the ten Middle English religious prose works belonging to the 'Ancrene Wisse' Group (named from its longest and most influential work, a guide for anchoresses), and also outlines a 'unified theory' of their origin which attempts to explain their combination of older native and contemporary Continental influences, placing them in a West Midlands diocesan context and seeing them as the product of the European movement of pastoral reform that culminated in the Fourth Lateran Council.

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Published date: 2004

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Local EPrints ID: 12109
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/12109
ISBN: 1843840189
PURE UUID: eb811026-dee4-4bca-b5a6-58a304c10385

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Date deposited: 09 Sep 2005
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 13:39

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Author: Bella Millett
Editor: A.S.G. Edwards

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