This Week's New Book: 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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