An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages.

Introduction
Miles Christi: Early Anchoritic Masculinity and the Sacred
Videte vocacionem vestram: Late Medieval Male Anchoritism and the Spectral Feminine
Writing the Flesh: Female Anchoritism and the Master Narrative
Reading with the Eyes Closed: Revising the Master Narrative
Mapping the Anchorhold: Anchorites, Borderlands and Liminal Spaces
Afterword
Bibliography