MARK CHINCA is Professor of Medieval German and Comparative Literature at the University of Cambridge. Author of books and essays on poetics, fiction, and metaphor in medieval writing, he is also co-editor of the digital edition of the Kaiserchronik (2019) and (with Christopher Young) Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages (2022).
Working in a rhetorical vein, Mark Chinca brings new precision to another aspect of this enduring, protean componentof faith. * Barbara Newman, Northwestern University, STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER * Mark Chinca has drawn our attention to a fascinating, changing psycho-spiritual medieval and early modern tradition of contemplation... his expansive argument on the development of modes of meditation on the inevitability of death across five centuries and as many languages is indeed a remarkable accomplishment. * Steven Rozenski, The Medieval Review *