Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Prelude x
5. Introduction: Ave 1
6. 1 Toward transfiguration 17
7. 2 Saints, poets, and other crossover artists 34
8. 3 Monastic poetics 52
9. Interlude 1 72
10. 4 Waiting for the Middle Ages 74
11. 5 Bodies in waiting 91
12. 6 Pas de deux 110
13. Interlude 2 125
14. 7 Lyric medievalism 127
15. 8 Lyric theology 144
16. Interlude 3 161
17. 9 Make me 163
18. Conclusion: Ecce 180
19. Bibliography 182
20. Index 187