Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives  examines the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their devotion. The volume also addresses the afterlives of objects and buildings in their temporal journeys from the Middle Ages to the present day. Written by the participants of a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded seminar held in York, U.K., in 2014, the chapters incorporate site-specific research with the insights of scholars of visual art, literature, music, liturgy, ritual, and church history. Interdisciplinarity is a central feature of this volume, which celebrates interactivity as a working method between its authors as much as a subject of inquiry.
Contributors are Lisa Colton, Elizabeth Dachowski, Angie Estes, Gregory Erickson, Jennifer M. Feltman, Elisa A. Foster,  Laura D. Gelfand, Louise Hampson, Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger, Kathleen E. Kennedy, Heather S. Mitchell-Buck, Julia Perratore, Steven Rozenski, Carolyn Twomey, and Laura J. Whatley.
Religious Studies
Arts & Science
General
English & Anglophone
art history
History
Medieval History
Literature
Literature and Cultural Studies
Contents 6
Acknowledgments 10
List of Figures 12
Notes on Contributors 16
Introduction 20
Elisa A. Foster, Julia Perratore and Steven Rozenski 20
Prologue: Holy Babble 44
Angie Estes 44
Part 1 46
The Home 46
Chapter 1 48
‘lothe to thenk on ought bot on Hymself’: Interaction and Contemplation in The Cloud of Unknowing 48
Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger 48
Chapter 2 68
Crusading for (Heavenly) Jerusalem: A Noble Woman, Devotion, and the Trinity Apocalypse (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.16.2) 68
Laura J. Whatley 68
Chapter 3 99
English Iconographic Rings and Medieval Populuxe Jewelry 99
Kathleen E. Kennedy 99
Part 2 120
The Cathedral 120
Chapter 4 122
The Last Judgement Porch at Lincoln Cathedral over the Longue Durée: Iconography, Interaction, and Religious Thought 122
Jennifer M. Feltman 122
Chapter 5 146
Beverley Minster’s 14th-Century Architectural Sculptures in a Devotional Context 146
Julia Perratore 146
Chapter 6 181
‘I was blind and now I can see!’ Sight and Revelation in the St William Window in York Minster 181
Laura D. Gelfand 181
Chapter 7 202
The Truth behind the Mask? Comparing Two Views of the Interior of York Minster in the 16th Century 202
Louise Hampson 202
Chapter 8 227
Song in Space and Space in Song: Physical and Conceptual Boundaries in English Devotional Music, 1250-1500 227
Lisa Colton 227
Part 3 258
The City 258
Chapter 9 260
‘This is My Body’: Devotion to the Corpus Christi Shrine in Late Medieval York 260
Elisa A. Foster 260
Chapter 10 287
How Alien were the Alien Priories of Yorkshire? 287
Elizabeth Dachowski 287
Part 4 302
The Parish Church 302
Chapter 11 304
A Light to Lighten the Gentiles: Stained Glass,
The Prick of Conscience, and Theological Double Vision in All Saints (North Street), York 304
Steven Rozenski 304
Chapter 12 328
Romanesque Baptismal Fonts in East Yorkshire Parishes: Decoration and Devotion 328
Carolyn Twomey 328
Part 5 364
Afterlives: Medieval Devotion and Modern Thought 364
Chapter 13 366
James Joyce’s Ulysses and the Medieval Eucharist: Fragmented Narratives of Doubt and Creation 366
Gregory Erickson 366
Chapter 14 391
Restored, Revived, Remixed, Reified? Our Devotion to the Medieval Past 391
Heather S. Mitchell-Buck 391
Postscript 417
Postscript: Afterlife 417
Angie Estes 417
Select Bibliography 418
Index 426

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The interdisciplinary volume Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives examines the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their devotion, with chapters that extend the temporality of objects and buildings beyond the Middle Ages.

2025-10-27