“Its chronological sweep and the attention to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries make Material Remains a welcome departure from business as usual in medieval English (note: not “British”) studies. The volume will interest scholars concerned with alliterative verse, burial practices, hagiography, historiography, material culture, and issues of temporality and fictionality in early literature.” —Eric Weiskott, Speculum
“William Carlos Williams wrote that there are ‘no ideas but in things’ and reading this fascinating collection of essays it is tempting to concur, for the authors … make a compelling case for the importance of reading literature in a variety of intersections with material culture.” —Rebecca Pinner, English: Journal of the English Association
“I was inspired by what this volume accomplishes, not only in its plethora of intersections between material culture and literature but also its demonstrations of how these intersections encourage us—indeed, oblige us—to breach ‘period’ barriers between early and late medieval, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and often enough the centuries beyond.” —Andrew Galloway, author of Medieval Literature and Culture: A Student Guide