http://www.hermitary.com/around/ Brief notices of Web sites and pages having to do with hermits, eremiticism, and solitude en-us 2003-05-14T14:58:20-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000062.html The Web site for a Canadian television series entitled Mystic Women of the Middle Ages, produced at McMaster University, features a "typical" young woman named Chrstine and her life and days in fifteenth century France. The live video, animation, and... Meng-hu 2003-05-14T14:58:20-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000056.html The Fellowship of Solitaries is an informal fellowship for Christian solitaries who do not seek formal status within a religious order but want to be informed and know that others share their avocation. The project has run fourteen years. Membership... Meng-hu 2003-04-30T11:39:46-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000047.html This private (i.e., non-canonical) Catholic order of solitaries (which includes Orthodox) offers a reflective Web site with representative passages on the eremitic life. The site is at the free host, Tripod, but don't let the pop-up ads deter a pleasant... Meng-hu 2003-04-29T11:01:50-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000045.html The recluse as a poetic device is featured in poet David Budbill's book, which he discusses in an NPR interview. From the Web page: "Host Lisa Simeone talks with Vermont poet David Budbill, who reads from his book, Moment To... Meng-hu 2003-04-28T13:49:35-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000044.html The April 2003 issue of Harper's magazine includes a short item by an applicant (real?) to the Shugborough, the English manor which advertised for an ornamental hermit, as described in a previous entry here. Unfortunately, the article is not available... Meng-hu 2003-04-28T13:04:41-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000036.html Although it does not allude to hermits as such (it mentions Thoreau's 150 square foot house and George Bernard Shaw's little writing cottage), this Web site will be of interest to anyone who wants to build or identify a small... Meng-hu 2003-04-15T11:37:20-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000037.html Shugborough, an 18th-century estate of 900 acres in Staffordshire, England, advertised for an ornamental hermit in the summer of 2002 and received over 200 applications from around the world. The winner, Ansuman Biswas of London, spent a weekend in the... Meng-hu 2003-04-09T11:57:01-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000038.html The audio of an NPR All Things Considered interview from October 31, 2001 is still available on the NPR Web site. Linda Wertheimer talks with Sister Marion Madden, the Vicar for Religious in the Diocese of Wheeling, West Virginia, about... Meng-hu 2003-04-08T11:59:51-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000039.html The Maronite Hermits: From The Fourth To The Twentieth Century is an attractive introduction to the Syriac Lebanese tradition of Christian eremiticism. The page is from the Web version of the Maronite Research Institute's Journal of Maronite Studies, October, 1999,... Meng-hu 2003-04-07T12:04:10-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000040.html A scholarly conference entitled Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs, on medieval anchorites and the social and gender context of enclosure in medieval Britain was held July 5-7, 2002 at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Topics included Ancrene Wisse, linguistics, mysticism, hagiography,... Meng-hu 2003-03-28T12:06:52-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000041.html An exhibition of paintings with hermits and solitaries as its theme was presented April 16 to June 2, 2002, by the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, England. The exhibition coincided with publication of Isabel Colegate's non-fiction book, Pelican in... Meng-hu 2003-03-22T12:10:33-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000042.html Looking for a newsletter with a predominantly Catholic approach to eremiticism? Raven's Bread is edited by Paul and Karen Fredette. Karen Fredette was formerly a Poor Clare nun and author Karen Karper, who published a narrative of her six years... Meng-hu 2003-03-17T12:13:23-05:00 http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000043.html Little is known about St. Guthlac except a standard hagiography. He lived in late seventh-early eighth century England, and is held as a model of saintly eremiticism in later English resources. A compact narrative and bibliography on Guthlac and his... Meng-hu 2003-03-04T12:16:59-05:00