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Chaucer
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Eucharist
Geoffrey Chaucer
long fifteenth century
material culture
materiality
medieval drama
Miracles of the Virgin
new materialist
Nicholas Love
object oriented
relics
religious belief
religious culture
religious objects
religious reform
sacrament
sacraments
the Cloud author
Walter Hilton
Wycliffism
Product details
- ISBN 9781526181053
- Weight: 509g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Fiona Somerset is Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies and Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut
Joshua S. Easterling is Associate Professor of English at Murray State University, Kentucky
