Angels and anchoritic culture in Late Medieval England / Joshua S. Easterling.

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

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This volume examines Latin and vernacular writings that formed part of a flourishing culture of mystical experience in the later Middle Ages (ca. 1150-1400), including the ways in which visionaries within their literary milieu negotiated the tensions between personal, charismatic inspiration and their allegiance to church authority. It situates texts written in England within their wider geographical and intellectual context through comparative analyses with contemporary European writings. A recurrent theme across all of these works is the challenge that a largely masculine and clerical culture faced in the form of the various, and potentially unruly, spiritualities that emerged powerfully from the twelfth century onward.

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October 01, 2021

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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England > Church history > 1066-1485.