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Anchorites and their texts, such as Ancrene Wisse, have recently undergone a reevaluation based on material circumstances, not just theological import. The articles here address a variety of anchoritic or anchoritic-adjacent texts, encompassing guidance literature, hagiographies, miracle narratives, medical discourse, and mystic prose, and spanning in date from the eighth through the fourteenth centuries. Exploring reclusion and materiality, the collection addresses a series of overlapping themes, including the importance of touch, the limits of religious authority, and the role of the senses. Objects, metaphorical and real, embodied and spiritual, populate the pages. These categories are permeable, with flexible and porous boundaries, demonstrating the conflation of ideas, concepts, and manifestations in medieval materiality. In fact, the permeability of these categories demonstrates how materiality can reshape our approach to medieval texts. It leaves room for directions for future study, including the application of material analysis to previously unstudied objects, spaces, and literary artifacts.

Material culture in literature. --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- History and criticism. --- Christian literature, English --- Christian literature, Middle English --- English Christian literature, Middle --- Middle English Christian literature --- English literature --- Middle English literature. --- anchorites. --- ancrenne wisse. --- embodiment. --- medieval materiality. --- medieval relics. --- reclusion.

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English literature --- English philology --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- English literature. --- English philology. --- Middle English. --- Old English. --- 450-1500 --- Anglo-Saxon philology --- English philology, Old --- Old English philology --- Germanic philology --- Middle English literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Littérature anglaise --- Philologie anglaise --- Civilisation médiévale dans la littérature --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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This study works with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture, to explore how representations of the past created in the British Middle Ages have been reimagined in modernity.

Civilization, Medieval. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- History --- Art, Medieval --- Art, Medieval. --- Civilization. --- Collective memory in art. --- Collective memory --- Crosses --- Middle Ages. --- Monuments --- Political aspects --- 1066-1485. --- England. --- Great Britain --- Great Britain. --- Ruine --- Mittelalter --- Kulturelle Identität --- Kollektives Gedächtnis --- Cultural property. --- Collective memory. --- Cultural property --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Grossbritannien --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- England and Wales --- Storbritannien --- Anglia --- Wielka Brytania --- Nagy-Britannia --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Grande-Bretagne --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- Velikobritanii︠a︡ --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Marea Britanie --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Iso-Britannia --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- בריטניה --- イギリス --- Igirisu --- Medieval Literature --- Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval --- Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Vereinigtes Königreich von Großbritannien und Nordirland --- Großbritannien und Nordirland --- England --- UK --- Angleterre --- Brīṭāniyā al-ʿUẓmā --- Brīṭāniya 'l-ʿUẓmā --- Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland --- Grande Bretagne --- British Isles --- Gran Bretagna --- U.K. --- GB --- British Empire --- Britisches Reich --- Briten --- Schottland --- Commonwealth --- 1707 --- -Civilization --- Cultural memory. --- Material culture. --- Medieval culture. --- Medieval studies. --- Medievalism. --- Memory studies. --- Middle English literature. --- Monument studies. --- Old English literature. --- Visual culture. --- Großbritannien.