This title examines from a variety of perspectives the anchoritic experience during the Middle Ages.

An examination of the growth and different varieties of anchoritism throughout medieval Europe.

An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages.

This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as t

One of the most important medieval writers studied in historical and literary context.