ANCREN RIWLE

ängˈkrĕn rēˈoolə or Ancrene Wisseängˈkrĕnə wĭsˈə [Mid. Eng.,=anchoresses' rule], English tract written c.1200 by an anonymous English churchman for the instruction of three young ladies about to become religious recluses. The work, important as a sample of early Middle English prose, is a charming mixture of realism and humor, didacticism and tenderness. It is also important for its depiction of the manners and customs of the time. French and Latin versions of the work are also extant.

See edition by J. R. R. Tolkien (1962); study by A. Zettersten (1965).

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The Ancren Riwle: A Treatise on the Rules and Duties of Monastic Life
Book by James Morton; Camden Society, 1853
Subjects: Monasticism And Religious Orders For Women, Monasticism And Religious Orders--Rules
THE ANCREN RIWLE; A TREATISE ON THE RULES AND DUTIES...responsible for the same. PREFACE. The Ancren Riwle a has long been known and appreciated...the original, but a translation of the Ancren Riwle. And it is further to be observed that...
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A Companion to Ancrene Wisse
Book by Yoko Wada; D.S. Brewer, 2003
Subjects: Ancren Riwle, Christian Literature, English (Middle)--History And Criticism, Christianity And Literature--England--History--To 1500, Monastic And Religious Life Of Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Monasticism And Religious Orders For Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Recluses In Literature, Solitude In Literature, Women And Literature--England--History--To 1500
...2 (Hardback : alk. paper) 1. Ancren riwle. 2. Monasticism and religious...in any other extant manuscript. Ancrene Riwle, a rule for anchoresses, which...eleven volumes under the title Ancrene Riwle. 4 As far as we know, there...
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Old English Homilies of the Twelfth Century
Book by Richard Morris; Kraus Reprint, 1981
Subjects: Hymns, English--Middle English, 1100-1500, Sermons, English (Middle)
...Ormulum, and Genesis and Exodus, there are no instances of nouns with the feminine suffix - en very common in the Ancren Riwle . The suffix ster occurs but once, in wassestren = washerwomen. Huccsterre in Ormulum ii. p. 192, l. 15817...
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Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown
Book by Not J. Cited; New York University Press ; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940
Subjects: Literature
...University of Pennsylvania Wynkyn de Worde and a Second French Compilation from the Ancren Riwle with a Description of the First Trinity Coll. Camb. MS 883 182 HOPE EMILY ALLEN...
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On the Continuity of English Prose from Alfred to More and His School: An Extract from the Introduction to Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More
Book by R. W. Chambers; Oxford University Press, 1957
Subjects: English Prose Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700, Fiction, More, Thomas--Sir, Saint--1478-1535
...SURVIVAL OF RELIGIOUS PROSE. THE ANCREN RIWLE. It may be asked--if there is...5 Allen, The Author of the Ancren Riwle , in Pub. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer...treatises addressed to women: the Ancren Riwle or the Scale of Perfection...
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Anglo-French and Middle English Vocabulary in Femina Nova
Journal article by W. Rothwell; Medium Aevum, Vol. 69, 2000
Subjects: English language--Middle English, 1100-1500, Femina Nova (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., French language--To 1500, Vocabulary--History
...to the niceties of etymological correctness or the artificial complexities of `borrowing. (A collective study of the Ancren Riwle texts in Latin, French, and Middle English now under way in Japan will in all probability illustrate this fact in some...
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The Life of St Osith
Journal article by Jane Zatta; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 41, 2005
Subjects: Christian saints--Biography, Osith, Vie Seinte


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Ancren Riwle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ANCREN RIWLE ang kren re ool or Ancrene Wisse ang kren wis Mid. Eng.,=anchoresses rule, English tract written c.1200 by an anonymous English churchman for the instruction of three young ladies about to become religious recluses. The work...
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Ancrene Wisse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ANCRENE WISSE see Ancren Riwle . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Hermit
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...commonly walled up in a cell with only a window. In medieval Europe the cell usually connected with a church. The Ancren Riwle was written for English anchoresses. Juliana of Norwich was a famous English anchoress. ____________________ Copyright...
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Middle English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...people rather than polite society. The "Katherine Group" (c.1200), comprising three saints lives, is typical. The Ancren Riwle (c.1200) is a manual for prospective anchoresses; it was very popular, and it greatly influenced the prose of the 13th...


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