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"Sawles Warde": IntroductionTo jump to the Bibliography, click here: Bibliography. "Sawles Warde" or "On the Custody of the Soul" focuses on the protection of the soul from inward and outward influences, using the allegory of the body as house protecting the soul within. The source of this work is a Latin treaties, De custodia interioris hominis, but the author of "Sawles Warde" reworks this material into a narrative homily, leaving out much of the philosophical emphasis of the original and trading it for greater allegorical detail. "Sawles Warde" is found among the "Katherine Group," a group of religious texts all written in the West Midlands sometime early in the thirteenth century. All these texts focus on appropriate behavior for Christians, specifically recluses, and more specifically women. [1]
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