Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book is a timely, valuable contribution to scholarly conversations about medieval religious cultures, early British literature, and disciplinary boundaries. It covers an impressive range of texts and puts texts into dialogue with each other in productive, original, and unexpected ways.” —Nancy Bradley Warren, author of Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
"This is a profoundly original book that challenges us to reread familiar works and look more closely at unfamiliar ones. On every page, Beechy’s work is provocative and exciting, substantial and serious, and it offers nothing less than a new understanding of faith and art in early medieval England." —R. M. Liuzza, editor of Old English Poetry: An Anthology
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
1. “Supereffability” and the Sacraments of Christ’s Humanity
2. Seeing Double: Representing the Hypostatic Union
3. No Ideas but in Things: Aesthetics and the Flesh of the Word
4. Concealing is Revealing I: Opacity and Enigma in the Wisdom Tradition
5. Concealing is Revealing II: The Shadow Manuscript in the Margins of CCCC 41
Conclusion
Works Cited
List of Figures
