The broken moon: lunar semiotics in 'Ancrene Wisse' and 'Pearl'
In the literature of medieval Christian Europe, the moon often signifies brokenness and limitation. No clearer is this than in two Middle English texts: the prose text Ancrene Wisse and the alliterative poem Pearl, two texts which are rarely studied alongside one another. In both these texts, the mo...
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Penn State University Press
2024
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