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020 $a1784994170
020 $a9781784994174
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040 $aYDX$beng$erda$cYDX
050 4 $aPN682.R4$bV37 2018
082 04 $a809/.933820902$223
100 1 $aVarnam, Laura,$d1982-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture /$cLaura Varnam.
264 1 $aManchester :$bManchester University Press,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axi, 267 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aManchester medieval literature and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 248-261) and index.
520 8 $aThis book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and the book explores what was at stake not only for the church's sanctity but for the identity of the parish community as a result. Focusing on pastoral material used to teach the laity, it shows how the church's status as a sacred space at the heart of the congregation was dangerously - but profitably - dependent upon lay practice. The sacred and profane were inextricably linked and, paradoxically, the church is shown to thrive on the sacrilegious challenge of lay misbehaviour and sin.
650 0 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aChristianity in literature.
650 0 $aChurch buildings in literature.
650 0 $aChurch history$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500.
830 0 $aManchester medieval literature and culture.
852 00 $bglx$hPN682.R4$iV37 2018