Rhetoric of the anchorhold

"Rhetoric of the Anchorhold: Space, Place and Body within the Discourses of Enclosure focuses on the type of religious reclusion in England commonly known as anchoritic enclosure, a phenomenon that reached its height of popularity, particularly for women, in the later Middle Ages. It examines from a number of different perspectives this extraordinary way of life whereby both men and women adopted voluntary, permanent and solitary enclosure, often in a small cell attached to a parish church, in both rural and urban locations."--Jacket.