The 'bestseller list' of medieval England would have included many manuals for penitents: works that could teach the public about the process of confession, .
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Lori Horvitz, November 2018
The Girls of Usually
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The Girls of Usually was the Gold Medal Winner for the 2016 IPPY Book Award in Autobiography/Memoir II and the 2015 USA Best Book Award winner in Gay & Lesbian Nonfiction. It was also the Bronze winner for Foreword Reviews’ 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in Autobiography & Memoir (Adult Nonfiction) and a finalist for the Saints & Sinners Emerging Writer Award; as well as an honorable mention in the 2015 Rainbow Awards.
In a recent interview, Lori discusses writing an honest memoir, the lawlessness of memory, and the magic of everyday life
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Rachael Kerr explains the significance of that bizarre and mystical character of the Church during the Middle Ages, the anchoress
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast – Isaiah 26:20
We’ve all had more than enough of our chambers recently, but our struggles pale in comparison with those of the anchoress – the medieval women who would have heard these words from Isaiah as they voluntarily entered into the most extreme form of lockdown yet invented.
In a world where saints, martyrs and visionary mystics were revered as paragons, the life of an anchoress was not for the fainthearted. Unlike the hermit, who could choose to stay in one place or to wander, the anchoress – or anchorite if male – chose to withdraw completely from the world into a life of constant prayer, self-denial and asceticism, shut up in a cell usually attached to a church.