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Objects of belief
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07 October 2025

LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485), RELIGION / Christianity / History, European history: medieval period, middle ages, History of religion, Material culture
Introduction – Joshua S. Easterling and Fiona Somerset
Part I
1 Prayer is a bead is a rose: the rosary material and immaterial – Claire M. Waters
2 Believing in the pardoner’s objects – Shannon Gayk
3 Christ-objects in Middle English drama – Sarah Salih
4 Ornamental habits – Anke Bernau
Part II
5 My yoke is soft: object as metaphor in Cambridge University Library MS Ff.6.31– Fiona Somerset
6 Apophasis in an age of image defence: situating the Cloud-author corpus in fifteenth-century England – Christiania Whitehead
7 Image and garment: reforming the object-self in Walter Hilton – Joshua S. Easterling
8 The matter of belief: Nicholas Love’s erotic rhetoric in defense of the doctrine of the real presence – Michael G. Sargent
Afterword – Robyn A. Bartlett