Chapter 4 On the Fringes: Anchorites

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Preface xi
6. Abbreviations xii
7. Introduction 1
8. Chapter 1 Reform, Change, and Renewal: Women Religious in the Central Middle Ages, 800–1050 22
9. Chapter 2 New Movements of the Twelfth Century: Diversity, Belonging, and Order(s) 43
10. Chapter 3 Change and Renewal: Mendicants and Tertiaries in Later Medieval Europe 61
11. Chapter 4 On the Fringes: Anchorites 76
12. Chapter 5 ‘Quasi-religious’: Vowesses 90
13. Chapter 6 Authority and Agency: Women as Heads of Religious Houses 105
14. Chapter 7 Women Religious, Secular Households: The Outside World and Crossing Boundaries in the Later Middle Ages 121
15. Chapter 8 Literacies, Learning, and Communal Reform: The Case of Alijt Bake 137
16. Chapter 9 Family and Friends: Gift-giving, Books, and Book Inscriptions in Women’s Religious Communities 152
17. Chapter 10 Communities of Medieval Religious Women and Their Landscapes 166
18. Chapter 11 Materiality and Archaeology of Women Religious 182
19. Chapter 12 Between Collective Memory and Individual Remembrance in Women’s Religious Communities 202
20. Select Bibliography 221
21. Index 247