The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle, Ancrene Wisse. Edited from Ms. Corpus Christi College Cambridge 402

This classic of English devotional literature was written for three anchoresses by a chaplain in about 1230 and is divided into eight sections, each dealing in an accessible way with one division of the religious rule. As well as being of historical importance, it is also a work of great charm and expressiveness, and is regarded as one of the greatest prose work of the Middle Ages.