"This is a virtuoso study, a substantial, unusual, often brilliant contribution to Middle English stylistics and poetics."–Nicholas Watson, Harvard University Poetics of the Incarnation examines fourteenth-century writers whose poetry and narrative explore the intellectual implications of the hypostatic union. The Incarnation inspired a working-through of the philosophical and theological implications of language while Middle English was emerging as a legitimate medium for theological expression. |
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