Yazar: Cristina Maria Cervone

The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as ‘the Word made flesh’—an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the c …

Essays on a variety of topics in late medieval literature, linked by an engagement with form. The insight that ‘the implications of textuality as such’ can and must underlie our interpretations of li …

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The …