Abstract
In addition to monastic and eremitic vocations, medieval women embraced with great fervor the anchoritic life. This unique method of separation produced a multiplicity of metaphorical language to describe the experience of the anchoress and her enclosure. This essay examines a cross section of that metaphorical language, focusing on those which are principally generative and paradoxical.
Recommended Citation
Maynus, Cody E. Obl.S.B.. 2016. A Garden Enclosed, A Fountain Sealed Up: Paradoxical and Generative Metaphors of Enclosure in Medieval Female Anchoritism. Obsculta 9, (1) : 133-144. https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/obsculta/vol9/iss1/11.
