Ebook: The medieval poetics of the reliquary: enshrinement, inscription, performance
Author: Seeta Chaganti
- Genre: Literature // Literary
- Tags: Литературоведение, Изучение зарубежной литературы, История зарубежной литературы
- Series: The New Middle Ages
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Reliquaries, elaborate containers housing the remains of the holy dead, informed numerous aspects of medieval culture. Incorporated into religious ceremonies, they contributed to the voiced, world-creating work of performance. At the same time, their decoration often included inscription, silent and self-referential. In the reliquary, silent inscription and spoken performance enshrined one another to produce a visual language about representation. Using texts by Chaucer, along with anonymous plays, lyrics, and hagiographic verse, The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary shows how the reliquary’s visual language explicated the representational processes of late-medieval English poetry.
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