As one of the most important religious movements for women in the later Middle Ages, it has been concerning that the material traces of anchoritism have rarely played a leading role in scholarly investigation, in spite of some very important, but often isolated, archaeological interventions. This book’s foray into anchoritic materiality, led by Michelle M. Sauer and Jenny C. Bledsoe—the former of whom is one of the few anchoritic scholars to have been working with materiality for some decades—is therefore most welcome. [...]From start to finish, therefore, The Materiality of Middle English Anchoritic Devotion is a strong volume, carefully devised for purposes of maximum cohesion, and adding to current debates surrounding anchoritic studies, its developing methodologies, and knowledge repositories.