Description
Book SynopsisRelics and Writing in Late Medieval England uses the literary study of relics to address issues of clerical and lay cultures, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and writing and reform.
Trade Review'Fascinating study...This book constitutes an impressive contribution to our understanding of relics and relic discourse, and offers an important reminder of the reciprocal and interconnected relationship among discourse, text, and materiality in medieval culture.' -- Barbara Zimbalist Journal of Medieval religious Cultures vol 40:02:2014 'Relics and Writing is learned, intelligent, and well structures ... Malo's skillful distillation of the patterns of relic discourse should provoke further thought about the ways in which medieval literature patterns itself upon religious objects.' -- Elizabeth Allen Modern Philology vol 112:04:2015 'Anyone interested in the general question of how relics signified and functioned will benefit from reading, and pondering along with this thought provoking book... Malo's book forces us to think more carefully and explicitly about the dynamics that many of us have been taking for granted.' -- Felicie Lifshitz Speculum April 2015
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I - Relic Discourse and the Cult of Saints Chapter 1 - Representing Relics Chapter 2 - The Commonplaces of Relic Discourse Part II - The Trouble with Relic Discourse Chapter 3 - English Grail Legends and the Holy Blood Chapter 4 - Relic Discourse in The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale and Troilus and Criseyde Chapter 5 - Wycliffite Texts and the Problem of Enshrinement Coda - The Cultural Work of Relic Discourse Notes Bibliography
