LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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The phrase refers to anchoresses responsibility to defend other Christians.
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The phrase suggests that women should safeguard their spirituality through total withdrawal from the world.
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The phrase is considered one of the positive effects of prayer.
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The phrase involves becoming a nun in order to escape the bad influence of men.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ancrene Wisse (Ancrene Riwle) is the best example of the prose of the middle English period. It is a book written for a community of three Anchoresses living in a retreat near a church. This anonymous treatise offers a complete guide to, and a warm justification of the anchoress’ life.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ancrene Wisse is often associated with the Katherine Group, a collection of devotional works also written near Herefordshire.
Detailed explanation-3: -4r. Anchorites were ascetic monks who lived in alone or in small groups in enclosures attached to churches, never emerging. Anchoresses were women who sealed themselves away, their funerals being celebrated upon their enclosure, signifying their death to the world.