This Week’s New Book: Poetics of the Incarnation

Poetics of the Incarnation
Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love


Cristina Maria Cervone

376 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus

Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4451-9 | $69.95 | £45.50
Ebook 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4451-9 | $69.95 | £45.50
A volume in the Middle Ages Series

"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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