Transfiguring medievalism

<i>Transfiguring medievalism</i> combines medieval literature modern poetry and theology to explore how bodies including literary bodies can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first appear. Transfiguration traditionally understood as the revelation of divinity in community becomes a figure for those splendors mundane and divine that await within the read lived and loved world. Bringing together medieval sources with modern lyric medievalism the book argues for the porousness of time and flesh not only through the accustomed cadences of scholarly argumentation but also through its own moments of poetic reflection. In this way Augustine Cassian Bernard of Clairvaux Dante Boccaccio and the heroes of Old French narrative no more or less than their modern lyric counterparts come to light in new and newly complicated ways.