Through interdisciplinary readings of medieval literature and devotional artifacts, The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary shows how reliquaries shaped ideas about poetry and poetics in late-medieval England.

The Poetics of Enshrinement Silent Inscription, Spoken Ceremony: Saint Erkenwald and the Enshrined Judge The N-Town Assumption's Impossible Reliquary Enshrining Form: Pearl as Inscriptional Object and Devotional Event Reliquaries of the Mind: Figuration, Enshrinement, and Performance in The Pardoner's Tale Conclusion: A Lyric Poetics of Enshrinement

SEETA CHAGANTI is Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of California, USA.