Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures

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

• Introduction: Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early-Modern Cultures: Issues and Approaches; L.Besserman PART I: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURE: LYRIC, NARRATIVE, AND DRAMA The Imitation of Hagiographic Formulas in Occitan Vidas (Lives of the Troubadours); C.Aslanov 'Quid Hinieldus cum Christo?': The Secular Expression of the Sacred in Old and Middle English Lyrics; C.Aslanov Reading Radical Metonymy in the Middle English Pearl; A.Fletcher Purchasing Pardon: Spiritual and Material Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage; A.Fletcher Story and History: Sacralizing the Genre of Romance; J.Whitman The Sacred and the Secular in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; M.Roston PART II: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN HISTORY: CHURCH AND STATE The Communal Body, The Corporate Body, and the Clerical Body: An Anthropological Reading of the Gregorian Reform; L.Barshack Sacred, Secular, and Impure: The Contextuality of Sensations; E.Cohen Religious Community and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages; R.Copeland Sacred Authority and Secular Power in the Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensis; R.M.Stein From Innocent III to Martin Luther: Sacramental Space and it Discontents; M.Rubin