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Objects of belief : material culture and religious writings in late Medieval England / edited by Fiona Somerset and Joshua S. Easterling.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Manchester medieval literature and culture.
- Manchester medieval literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--Religious aspects.
- Material culture.
- Material culture--England--History--To 1500.
- Religious literature, English--History and criticism.
- Religious literature, English.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- Fiona Somerset is Professor of English and Co-director of the Medieval Studies Program at the University of Connecticut.
- Joshua S. Easterling is Associate Professor of English at Murray State University, Kentucky.
- Summary:
- The eight studies presented here on late medieval religious objects provide new insight into miracle stories, spiritual writings, religious drama, and medieval English poetry.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I
- Prayer is a bead is a rose: the rosary material and immaterial
- Believing in the Pardoner's objects
- Christ-objects in Middle English drama
- Ornamental habits
- Part II
- My yoke is soft: object as metaphor in Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.6.31
- Apophasis in an age of image defence: situating the Cloud-author corpus in fifteenth-century England
- Image and garment: reforming the object-self in Walter Hilton
- The matter of belief: Nicholas Love's erotic rhetoric in defence of the doctrine of the real presence
- Afterword: co-creating objects of belief
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-8104-5
- 1-5261-8106-1
- OCLC:
- 1537944070
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