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The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary: Enshrinement, Inscription, Performance (The New Middle Ages)

Seeta Chaganti

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary: Enshrinement, Inscription, Performance (The New Middle Ages). To get started finding The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary: Enshrinement, Inscription, Performance (The New Middle Ages), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary: Enshrinement, Inscription, Performance (The New Middle Ages). To get started finding The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary: Enshrinement, Inscription, Performance (The New Middle Ages), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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