This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings

This volume's essays together provide a rich investigation of the idea of sanctity and its many medieval manifestations across time (fifth through fifteenth cen

This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived exp

Middle English devotional compilations – consisting of a series of texts or extracts of texts that have intentionally been put together to constitute new and

Communities have often shaped themselves around cultural spaces set apart and declared sacred. For this purpose, churches, priests or scholars no less than writ