Sacred and secular in medieval and early modern cultures : new essays / edited by Lawrence Besserman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Besserman, Lawrence L., 1945-

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

New Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Secularism in literature.

Holy, The, in literature.

Christianity in literature.

Church and state--Europe--History--To 1500.

Church and state.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xviii, 238 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

New essays by distinguished scholars on "sacred" and "secular" in medieval and early modern literature and history.

Contents:

Introduction: Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: Issues and Approaches / Lawrence Besserman 1

Part I Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Lyric, Narrative, and Drama

1 The Imitation of Hagiographic Formulas in Occitanian Vidas (Lives of the Troubadours) / Cyril Aslanov 19

2 "Quid Hinieldus Cum Christo?": The Secular Expression of the Sacred in Old and Middle English Lyrics / Thomas G. Duncan 29

3 Reading Radical Metonymy in Pearl / Alan J. Fletcher 47

4 Purchasing Pardon: Material and Spiritual Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage / Alastair Minnis 63

5 Sacred and Secular in The Merchant of Venice / Murray Roston 83

Part II Medieval and Early Modern History: Church and State

6 The Communal Body, the Corporate Body, and the Clerical Body: An Anthropological Reading of the Gregorian Reform / Lior Barshack 101

7 Sacred, Secular, and Impure: The Contextuality of Sensations / Esther Cohen 123

8 Secular and Sacred: The History of Rhetoric and Religious Community in the Middle Ages / Rita Copeland 135

9 Sacred Authority and Secular Power: The Historical Argument of the Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensis / Robert M. Stein 149

10 The Space of the Altar / Miri Rubin 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-225) and index.

ISBN:

1403967326

OCLC:

60414464