Contents

• Introduction: Sacred and secular in medieval and early modern cultures : issues and approaches / Lawrence Besserman
• The imitation of hagiographic formulas in Occitanian Vidas (Lives of the troubadours) / Cyril Aslanov
• "Quid Hinieldus cum Christo?" The secular expression of the sacred in Old and Middle English lyrics / Thomas G. Duncan
• Reading radical metonymy in Pearl / Alan J. Fletcher
• Purchasing pardon : material and spiritual economies on the Canterbury pilgrimage / Alastair Minnis
• Sacred and secular in the Merchant of Venice / Murray Roston
• The communal body, the corporate body, and the clerical body : an anthropological reading of the Gregorian reform / Lior Barshack
• Sacred, secular, and impure : the contextuality of sensations / Esther Cohen
• Secular and sacred : the history of rhetoric and religious community in the Middle Ages / Rita Copeland
• Sacred authority and secular power : the historical argument of the Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensis / Robert M. Stein
• The space of the altar / Miri Rubin