Although there are sure to be any number of causes for our scholarly
hermitry, I suspect that this "beauteous fragmentation" is partially a residue of the postmodernism that arrived at American law schools in the 1980s, (13) and that it is this residue that now works as a block on our theorizing about contemporary legal thought.
Although attitudes had shifted by the early 19th century--critics likened
hermitry to slavery--a few garden hermitages remained occupied.
The film less documents the occurrence of these events than their eventual digital distribution followed by Internet notoriety and subsequent
hermitry of Jack Rebney i.e.
But as soon as the script has established the character's
hermitry, it decides he's only been waiting for Miss Right (or perhaps anybody) to walk in the door.
But in the troublesome years of the tenth century many of Edward's sons and daughters got themselves to a nunnery or a
hermitry, if only to avoid getting themselves to a graveyard instead.
Anderson presents Emerson and Thoreau, for example, as apostles of self-absorbed
hermitry, seeking a "solitary, total, and guiltless possession of the world." Certainly that strand exists.
But then the profession went into steady decline, although the Carthusian monasteries offered a kind of nine to five
hermitry for monks who wanted solitude with trimmings.