“Many Good Small Books”: Archives, Lists, and Epistemological Instability in the Inventory of the Recluses of St. Katherine, Haguenau
This article examines the sometimes fraught relationship between recluses and archives, both in terms of finding recluses in the archives and in terms of studying the records that they created. Medieval recluses (or anchorites), who pursued religious lives voluntarily confined to their dwellings (called cells, anchorho...