LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Which of the following advice is offered to women in Acrene Wisse?
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Anchoresses should live in a dwelling attached to a church.
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Anchoresses should avoid gossip.
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Anchoresses should avoid men.
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All of these answers
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Ancrene Wisse is often associated with the Katherine Group, a collection of devotional works also written near Herefordshire.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was an anchoress? An anchoress was a woman who was walled into a cell to live a life of prayer and contemplation. (The male equivalent was an ‘anchorite’.) Anchoresses were enclosed in their cells and had no way to get out.
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