Ancren Riwle

It is very much to be wished that Mr. Morton would undertake the task of editing another volume of legends, homilies, and poems, of the same age as the _Ancren Riwle_, still existing in various manuscripts.

Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various

Its contents are ff. 1-120r, the Ancren Riwle; 120v-123v, The Orison, XVIII.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

_The Ancren Riwle_, or _Anchoresses 'Rule_, about 1200, by an unknown writer, sets forth the duties of a monastic life for three ladies

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Sometimes a little group of recluses lived together, like those three sisters of Dorsetshire for whom the _Ancren Riwle_ was written, a treatise which gives us so many homely details of this type of life.

Mysticism in English Literature Caroline F. E. Spurgeon 1905

Ancren Riwle. 14 It is clearly only a fragment of her complete book

The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902

The _Ancren Riwle_ [91] has no oddities of this kind, and nothing particularly noticeable in its form, though its easy pleasant prose would have been wonderful at the time in any other European nation.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

_Ancren Riwle_, even in the Arthurian romances and the early lyrics.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

The ages of St Francis and of the _Imitation_ do not compel us to look about for a _seul livre aimable_, but it may safely be said that there is none more amiable in a cheerful human way than the _Ancren Riwle_.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

But then the unknown author of the _Ancren Riwle_ had certainly four or five, and perhaps more, centuries of good sound

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

The _Ormulum_ and the _Ancren Riwle_ appear to be -- the former exactly and the latter nearly of the same date as Layamon, all being near to

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889