Lives of the Anchoresses: The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe

by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

In cities and towns across northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman took up authoritative positions in society, all the while living as public recluses in cells attached to the sides of churches. In Lives of the Anchoresses, Anneke Mulder-Bakker offers a new history of these women who chose to forsake the world but did not avoid it.

Unlike nuns, anchoresses maintained their ties to society and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812238524
• ISBN13: 9780812238525
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.4"