Sarah Beckwith is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
'An important contribution ... will have a profound impact on our
thinking about our own practices as historians and literary
critics.' - Medium Aevum
'Disarmingly fearless ... a brilliant study ... Beckwith moves
through her arguments with jewelled precision of thought and
breathtaking skill ... makes a compelling case for the new kinds of
questions we should be asking of late-medieval religious texts ...
more fully and more urgently than any recent book I know.' -
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
'An intelligent, original and inspiring book which will interest
not only medievalists but all those who face the challenge of
studying religious cultures, and of applying social and cultural
theory to pre-modern societies.' - History Workshop Journal
' ... innovative, exciting and stimulating.' - Women: A Cultural
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