Medievalists.net » Loretta de Braose Countess of Leicester http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medieval Widowhood and Textual Guidance: The Corpus Revisions of Ancrene Wisse and the de Braose Anchoresses http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/03/medieval-widowhood-textual-guidance-corpus-revisions-ancrene-wisse-de-braose-anchoresses/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/03/medieval-widowhood-textual-guidance-corpus-revisions-ancrene-wisse-de-braose-anchoresses/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:45:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50087 In this article, I shall examine the lives of Loretta and her siblings as templates for the kind of audience imagined by the authors of the Ancrene Wisse Group and, in particular, by the author of Ancrene Wisse as he revised his original text.

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