Packet 3: Bonus 16

A 13th-century text addressed to these people advises them to “love your windows as little as possible, and see that they be small.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these people exemplified by Jutta (“YOOT-ta”) of Sponheim and the poet Bertken. These people began their ministry by being “enclosed” in a cell attached to a wall in a ceremony based on the requiem mass.
ANSWER: anchoresses [or anchorites; prompt on recluses or nuns or religious sisters; prompt on hermits]
[10e] The “Guide to Anchoresses” may have been used by this woman from Norwich who wrote the Revelations of Divine Love.
ANSWER: Julian of Norwich [accept Lady Julian or Dame Julian or Mother Julian]
[10h] The Dominican friar Johannes wrote a Vita of this city’s anchoress Margaret the Lame, who likely fled to the Cistercian monastery of St. Agnes after threats to burn her at the stake. The Beguine (“beg-EEN”) mystic Mechthild (“MESHT-hilt”) was also from this city.
ANSWER: Magdeburg [or Meideborg]
<Cambridge, European History> | C. Prelims 3 - Cambridge + UCLA + Stanford B + Virginia

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