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Anchorites and their texts, such as Ancrene Wisse, have recently undergone a reevaluation based on material circumstances, not just theological import. The articles here address a variety of anchoritic or anchoritic-adjacent texts, encompassing guidance literature, hagiographies, miracle narratives, medical discourse, and mystic prose, and spanning in date from the eighth through the fourteenth centuries. Exploring reclusion and materiality, the collection addresses a series of overlapping themes, including the importance of touch, the limits of religious authority, and the role of the senses. Objects, metaphorical and real, embodied and spiritual, populate the pages. These categories are permeable, with flexible and porous boundaries, demonstrating the conflation of ideas, concepts, and manifestations in medieval materiality. In fact, the permeability of these categories demonstrates how materiality can reshape our approach to medieval texts. It leaves room for directions for future study, including the application of material analysis to previously unstudied objects, spaces, and literary artifacts.

Material culture in literature. --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- History and criticism. --- Christian literature, English --- Christian literature, Middle English --- English Christian literature, Middle --- Middle English Christian literature --- English literature --- Middle English literature. --- anchorites. --- ancrenne wisse. --- embodiment. --- medieval materiality. --- medieval relics. --- reclusion.

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First recent full-length analysis of a major medieval poem.

Debate poetry, English (Middle) --- Poetry, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- Wynnere and Wastoure --- Criticism, Textual. --- Great Britain --- History --- Debate poetry, Middle English --- English debate poetry, Middle --- Middle English debate poetry --- English poetry --- Winner and Waster --- Wynnere and Wastoure (Middle English Poem) --- Wynnere and Wastoure. --- 1327-1377 --- Great Britain.

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Medieval England had a thriving culture of rewriting the Bible in art, drama, and literature in Latin, French and English. Middle English biblical poetry was central to this culture, and although these poems have suffered from critical neglect, sometimes dismissed as mere 'paraphrase', they are rich, innovative and politically engaged. Read in the same gentry and noble households as secular romance, biblical poems borrow and adapt romance plots and motifs, present romance-inflected exotic settings, and share similar concerns: reputation, order, family and marriage.

This book explores six poems from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that retell episodes from the Old Testament: the ballad-like 'Iacob and Iosep', two lives of 'Adam and Eve'; an alliterative version of the Susanna story, the 'Pistel of Susan'; and the Gawain-poet's 'Patience' and 'Cleanness'. Each chapter identifies new sources and influences for the poems, including from biblical glosses and manuscript illustration. The book also investigates the poems' relationships with contemporary cultures of literature and religion, including with secular romance, and offers new readings of each poem and its cultural functions, showing how they bridge the chasm between medieval Christian England and the Jews and pagans of the pre-Christian Mediterranean world. It also considers reading contexts, arguing that the poems and their manuscripts offer hints about the social class and gender of their household audiences.

Religious poetry, English (Middle) --- History and criticism. --- Bible --- In literature. --- Biblical poetry. --- Middle English literature. --- Old Testament. --- biblical retelling. --- cultural functions. --- literary analysis. --- medieval England. --- medieval narrative. --- romance.

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This New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer brings together preeminent scholars from around the world and adopts a novel approaching, beginning with the basics: Chaucer's words. Each chapter explores a single word from the Chaucerian corpus to develop readings that extend across the author's works. Without being limited to a particular text or theoretical approach, contributors model scholarly thinking in action, posing questions and offering analyses from textual, theoretical, historical, and material approaches. The result is a comprehensive collection of essays that illuminates Chaucer's aesthetics, philosophical complexity, and continued relevance. Part innovative scholarship, part how-to manual, the volume includes apparatus to help less experienced readers of Chaucer negotiate its contents. In addition to fourteen main essays, the volume also includes three response essays, each modelling how a seasoned scholar uses the chapters to develop his or her own thinking about Chaucer. Thus, the companion offers something to audiences of all levels who wish to read, research, and enjoy Chaucer, his language, and his works.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Canterbury Tales. --- Chaucer. --- language. --- literary criticism. --- medieval. --- middle English.

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"In England, as well as on the continent, the early fifteenth century saw a slackening of rigorous academic work in theology and at the same time a stronger interest in biblical and devotional approaches and practices. This book addresses the question of whether, and if so in what way, such a change may also have occurred in preaching by investigating the form in which sermons were constructed, to determine whether a new development or innovation replaced the scholastic sermon, or sermo modernus, in use from the later thirteenth century on. The volume concludes with editions of sermons drawn from major works created in England between the final years of the fourteenth and the middle of the fifteenth century."--

Preaching --- Sermons, Latin --- Sermons, English (Middle) --- Sermons, Medieval --- 251 <420> --- 251 <09> --- 27 <420> "12/14" --- English sermons, Middle --- Middle English sermons --- Sermons, English --- Sermons, Middle English --- English prose literature --- 27 <420> "12/14" Histoire de l'Eglise--Engeland--?"12/14" --- 27 <420> "12/14" Kerkgeschiedenis--Engeland--?"12/14" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Engeland--?"12/14" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Engeland--?"12/14" --- 251 <420> Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking--Engeland --- 251 <420> Homiletique. Predication--Engeland --- Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking--Engeland --- Homiletique. Predication--Engeland --- Latin sermons --- History --- History and criticism --- Manuscripts --- Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking--Geschiedenis van --- England --- Church history --- Religious life and customs --- Medieval sermons