Objects of belief by Joshua Easterling
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.-
The Parlement of Foulys
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The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
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Medieval literary voices
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Hybrid healing
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Difficult pasts
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Play time
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Transfiguring medievalism
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Medieval afterlives
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The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry
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Between liturgy and magic
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Walking in the Middle Ages
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Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries
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From Iceland to the Americas
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The politics of Middle English parables
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Translating hell
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Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France
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Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages
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Annotated Chaucer Bibliography
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Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
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Objects of Affection
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Harley Manuscript Geographies
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The The Knight and the Barrel (Le Chevalier Au Barisel)
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The Scottish Legendary
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Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
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Roadworks
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A Knight's Legacy
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Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
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Transporting Chaucer
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Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain
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A Landscape of Words
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Reading Robin Hood
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Greenery
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Rethinking the South English Legendaries
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Aspects of Knowledge
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Practising Shame
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The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture
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Fantastic histories
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Visions and Ruins
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Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
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Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England
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Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance
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Saga Emotions
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Strange matter
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
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526181053 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526181053 |
| Title | Objects of belief |
| Author | Joshua Easterling |
| Series | Manchester Medieval Literature And Culture |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2025-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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