Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-265) and index.
Contents:
Absent glosses : the trouble with middle English hermeneutics -- Looking for a sign : the quest for Nominalism in Ricardian poetry -- Piers's protean pardon : Langland on the letter and spirit of indulgences -- Making bodies : confection and conception in Walter Brut's vernacular theology -- Spiritualizing marriage : Margery Kempe's allegories of female authority -- Chaucer and the relics of vernacular religion.
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