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Article: David Aers, Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 2005
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David Aers, Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), xiii + 281 pp. ISBN 0-268-02021-3, $55.00 (hard covers); ISBN 0-208-02022-1, $25.00 (p/b).
This book represents both a development but also an extension of David Aers's examination of late medieval Christian attitudes, and though it draws upon vernacular texts like Piers Plowman, with which Aers has often concerned himself, it engages as well two topics which are gaining a foothold in English medieval studies generally, the importance of the eucharist and, by extension, liturgical resonances in vernacular texts, and the ...