{"product_id":"9781526181053","title":"Objects of belief","description":"Author: Joshua Easterling\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526181053\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Nov 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eObjects in late medieval Europe were a means for lay people and clergy to negotiate their access to powers beyond the everyday, in folk practice as well as religious observance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs has been noted by scholars, this period is marked by a profusion of objects granted special importance, imaginary as well as material. These objects prompt reconsideration of cultural and intellectual frameworks, for example of superstition, reform, and heresy, that never quite successfully contain them. Essays in this volume centre attention on these things themselves, from puppets to rosaries, as indeed do the written accounts through which they are often mediated. With a focus on England, contributors re-evaluate our understanding of works and authors including Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter Hilton, Nicholas Love, Julian of Norwich, miracles of the Virgin, Edward Hall's Chronicle, the Wycliffite Glossed Gospels, and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920561291422,"sku":"ING-9781526181053","price":217.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526181053.jpg?v=1782823943","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526181053","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}