The medieval poetics of the reliquary : enshrinement, inscription, performance /
Chaganti, Seeta.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-230) and index.
The poetics of enshrinement -- Silent inscription, spoken ceremony : Saint Erkenwald and the enshrined judge -- The N-town assumption's impossible reliquary -- Enshrining form : Pearl as inscriptional object and devotional event -- Reliquaries of the mind : figuration, enshrinement, and performance in The pardoner's tale.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Saint Erkenwald (Middle English poem)
N-Town plays.
Pearl (Middle English poem)
English literature
Reliquaries, Medieval.
Poetics.
Sacred space in literature.
Inscriptions in literature.
Performance in literature.