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This critical edition of a late-medieval English ‘rule’ for male anchorites is a timely intervention in – and stimulus to – an already exciting field.

The Speculum Inclusorum is an early 15th-century Latin rule or guide.



Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION
  • General introduction
  • - Rules for anchorites
  • - Men, masculinity and the anchoritic vocation
  • - Previous editions
  • Manuscripts
  • - Descriptions of extant manuscripts
  • - Lost manuscripts
  • - Relationship of manuscripts
  • Author and readers
  • - Speculum Inclusorum
  • - A Mirror for Recluses
  • This edition
  • The Texts
  • Critical Apparatus
  • Notes to the Texts
  • Appendix to the Notes to the Texts: annotations to base manuscripts
  • Bibliography

Speculum Inclusorum A Mirror for Recluses A

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: 14/11/2013
      ISBN13: 9780859898850, 978-0859898850
      ISBN10: 0859898857
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This critical edition of a late-medieval English ‘rule’ for male anchorites is a timely intervention in – and stimulus to – an already exciting field.

      The Speculum Inclusorum is an early 15th-century Latin rule or guide.



      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgements
      • Abbreviations
      • INTRODUCTION
      • General introduction
      • - Rules for anchorites
      • - Men, masculinity and the anchoritic vocation
      • - Previous editions
      • Manuscripts
      • - Descriptions of extant manuscripts
      • - Lost manuscripts
      • - Relationship of manuscripts
      • Author and readers
      • - Speculum Inclusorum
      • - A Mirror for Recluses
      • This edition
      • The Texts
      • Critical Apparatus
      • Notes to the Texts
      • Appendix to the Notes to the Texts: annotations to base manuscripts
      • Bibliography

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