Ancrene Wisse : From Pastoral Literature to Vernacular Spirituality

Provides an introduction to "Ancrene Wisse", one of the most important works in English of the thirteenth century. This book offers a fresh contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages. This book is innovative in that it provi...

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Main Author: Gunn, C. (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Cardiff 2007
Subjects:
God
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