Objects of belief : Material Culture and Religious Writings in Late Medieval England
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
ISBN-10
1526181053
ISBN-13
9781526181053
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 7th, 2025
Print length
310 Pages
Weight
514 grams
Dimensions
22.40 x 14.90 x 2.40 cms
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The eight studies presented here on late medieval religious objects provide new insight into miracle stories, spiritual writings, religious drama, and medieval English poetry. -- .
Objects in late medieval Europe were a means for lay people and clergy to negotiate their access to powers beyond the everyday, in folk practice as well as religious observance. As has been noted by scholars, this period is marked by a profusion of objects granted special importance, imaginary as well as material. These objects prompt reconsideration of cultural and intellectual frameworks, for example of superstition, reform, and heresy, that never quite successfully contain them. Essays in this volume center attention on these things themselves, from puppets to rosaries, as indeed do the written accounts through which they are often mediated. With a focus on England, contributors re-evaluate our understanding of works and authors including Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter Hilton, Nicholas Love, Julian of Norwich, miracles of the Virgin, Edward Hall''s Chronicle, the Wycliffite Glossed Gospels, and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament.
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