Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love by Cristina Maria Cervone (review)

The Manuscripts of Solomon and Saturn: CCCC 41, CCCC 422, BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv

“…Reference source not found. I have recently argued, and reiterate in a forthcoming book, that the Solomon and Saturn dialogues are unified by a concern with the enigma of the Logos, participating in an early "Incarnational poetics", a term I take from Cristina Maria Cervone (2012). This is important because an Incarnational poetics relates the two parts of the manuscript to one another, the Solomon and Saturn texts to the liturgy.…”

“…13 A modest amount has been written over the past three decades attempting to address the meaning of these texts and individual cruces as separate entities, while recently, Heide Estes has argued that they form one prosimetric whole. 14 I have recently argued, and reiterate in a forthcoming book, that the Solomon and Saturn dialogues are unified by a concern with the enigma of the Logos, participating in an early "Incarnational poetics", a term I take from Cristina Maria Cervone (2012). This is important because an Incarnational poetics relates the two parts of the manuscript to one another, the Solomon and Saturn texts to the liturgy.…”