So You've Decided to Become Dead to the World: On Becoming an Anchoress (medievalmarginalia.substack.com)

Interesting read. I wonder what a “modern” anchoress would be like.

A thing I learned of in the truly wonderful video game Pentiment

Oooh, I am Baader-Meinhofing hard. I went down a rabbit hole on the Anchorite life after reading about Paul of Thebes.