Name: Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7727-4

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Lawrence Besserman (Professor of English)⁰

Lawrence Besserman
1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xviii

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
  Lawrence Besserman
  
  Pages 1-15
Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Lyric, Narrative, and Drama
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 17-17
  
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2. The Imitation of Hagiographic Formulas in Occitanian Vidas (Lives of the Troubadours)
  
  Cyril Aslanov
  
  Pages 19-27
3. “Quid Hinieldus Cum Christo?”:The Secular Expression of the Sacred in Old and Middle English Lyrics
  
  Thomas G. Duncan
  
  Pages 29-46
4. Reading Radical Metonymy in Pearl
  
  Alan J. Fletcher
  
  Pages 47-61
5. Purchasing Pardon: Material and Spiritual Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage
  
  Alastair Minnis
  
  Pages 63-82
6. Sacred and Secular in The Merchant of Venice
  
  Murray Roston
  
  Pages 83-98
Medieval and Early Modern History: Church and State
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 99-99
  
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2. The Communal Body, the Corporate Body, and the Clerical Body: An Anthropological Reading of the Gregorian Reform
  
  Lior Barshack
  
  Pages 101-121
3. Sacred, Secular, and Impure: The Contextuality of Sensations
  
  Esther Cohen
  
  Pages 123-133
4. Secular and Sacred: The History of Rhetoric and Religious Community in the Middle Ages
  
  Rita Copeland
  
  Pages 135-147
5. Sacred Authority and Secular Power: The Historical Argument of the Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensis
  
  Robert M. Stein
  
  Pages 149-165
6. The Space of the Altar
  
  Miri Rubin
  
  Pages 167-176
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Pages 177-238

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About this book

This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Lawrence Besserman

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LAWRENCE BESSERMAN is currently a Professor of English, specializing in Old and Middle English literature, especially Chaucer, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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Book Title: Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures
Book Subtitle: New Essays
Editors: Lawrence Besserman
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403977274
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6732-9Published: 22 February 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53000-7Published: 09 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-7727-4Published: 04 February 2006
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 238
Topics: Medieval Literature, History of Medieval Europe, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, Classical and Antique Literature, British and Irish Literature

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Introduction

Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Lyric, Narrative, and Drama

Front Matter

The Imitation of Hagiographic Formulas in Occitanian Vidas (Lives of the Troubadours)

“Quid Hinieldus Cum Christo?”:The Secular Expression of the Sacred in Old and Middle English Lyrics

Reading Radical Metonymy in Pearl

Purchasing Pardon: Material and Spiritual Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage

Sacred and Secular in The Merchant of Venice

Medieval and Early Modern History: Church and State

Front Matter

The Communal Body, the Corporate Body, and the Clerical Body: An Anthropological Reading of the Gregorian Reform

Sacred, Secular, and Impure: The Contextuality of Sensations

Secular and Sacred: The History of Rhetoric and Religious Community in the Middle Ages

Sacred Authority and Secular Power: The Historical Argument of the Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensis

The Space of the Altar

Back Matter

Keywords

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Editors and Affiliations

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Lyric, Narrative, and Drama

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Medieval and Early Modern History: Church and State

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Back Matter

Keywords

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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