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The Ancrene Wisse, a guide for female recluses in the West Midlands in the early thirteenth century, and the closely related works of the "Katherine Group, " offer vivid and fascinating insights into the religious life of the time. The difficulty of the language however, which skillfully blends Latin and native English stylistic traditions, has made the documents largely inaccessible to all but experts in Middle English. This edition presents ...

This new annotated translation of the "Ancrene Wisse, " the early thirteenth-century guide for female recluses, presents a key document for the development of medieval spirituality and one of the major works of early Middle English prose. Reflecting the "democratization" of religious experience, one of the outcomes of the Medieval Reformation, the "Ancrene Wisse "drew on new kinds of pastoral literature designed to appeal to a more general aud...