The poetics of enshrinement -- Silent inscription, spoken ceremony : Saint Erkenwald and the enshrined judge -- The N-town assumption's impossible reliquary -- Enshrining form : Pearl as inscriptional object and devotional event -- Reliquaries of the mind : figuration, enshrinement, and performance in The pardoner's tale
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index
