"Bildhauer’s book is original, timely, and well-researched considering its purposes and the impressive historical and generic breadth of its literary-cultural focus. [...] Quite apart from what we may get out of them for our own purposes, luminous objects, nets, rings, robes, and many other agential things, in Bildhauer’s account, tell their own amazing stories—sometimes beautiful and sublime, often uncanny and bizarre, but always fascinating—if we are willing and able to pay attention to them." —Will Hasty, Arthuriana
"So short a review cannot do justice to the theoretical synthesis and numerous new readings offered by this challenging if inevitably partial study. [...] this is a study for which to be grateful." —Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Medium Aevum
“The volume outlines a series of useful interventions and generates connective tissue between approaches that seem poised to bear additional fruit in Medieval Studies scholarship.” —Adam Oberlin, Journal of English and Germanic Philology