I'm curious about a prohibition that occurs in the _Ancrene Wisse_. In
Part VIII the writer tells the anchoress that she may not make lace on a
frame. I am sure someone on the list must know why this prohibition
exists. The anchoress is not prohibited from making lace--but lace
requiring a frame.
I checked our archives and we have nothing on this topic.
Thanking you ahead of time,
Arlene
Arlene Catherine Hilfer
Assistant Professor of English
Hanover College
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"He is our clothing, for love;
He enwraps us and envelops us;
embraces us and encloses us;
He hovers over us, for tender love, that He may never leave us."
---Julian of Norwich
Book IV, Shorter version
A Showing of God's Love
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