The medieval poetics of the reliquary
Subtitle: enshrinement, inscription, performance
By: Seeta Chaganti.
Series: The new Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400; Saint Erkenwald (Middle English poem); Ludus Coventriae; Pearl (Middle English poem); English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Reliquaries, Medieval; Poetics; Sacred space in literature; Inscriptions in literature; Performance in literature
Description: Through interdisciplinary readings of medieval literature and devotional artifacts, The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary shows how reliquaries shaped ideas about poetry and poetics in late-medieval England.
Table of contents: title: The poetics of enshrinement; title: Silent inscription, spoken ceremony : Saint Erkenwald and the enshrined judge; title: The N-town assumption's impossible reliquary; title: Enshrining form : Pearl as inscriptional object and devotional event; title: Reliquaries of the mind : figuration, enshrinement, and performance in The pardoner's tale.