AGES ERA PERIOD
MIDDLE AGES
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
courtiers entering the service of Richard II
|
|
|
translators of French romances
|
|
|
women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
|
|
|
knights preparing for their first tournament
|
Detailed explanation-1: -A medieval code of rules for the life of anchoresses or recluses. The Ancrene Riwle, or Ancrene Wisse, was written specifically for three sisters (not nuns) who had retired to a life of prayer and penance. Seven copies of the text are extant in English.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are a lot of versions of the text, but it is thought that it was first written for three sisters who lived in three separate anchor houses, so that they were close by one another, but never saw one another.
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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ancrene Wisse is often associated with the Katherine Group, a collection of devotional works also written near Herefordshire.