Dr. Beechy's work is focused on the literature and culture of early medieval Britain. She is a specialist in poetic form and genre, and has turned recently to the poetics of manuscript compilation, as well. Her latest book, _Flesh of the Word: Materiality, Aesthetics, and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain_, treats the relationship between form and theology in the period, uncovering a local and certainly unorthodox piety, according to which the Incarnate Word could manifest in the present world: in language, in objects, and in sensory experiences of various kinds.
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medieval poetry and poetics, poetics, linguistic theory, semiotics, Old English language and literature, Middle English language and literature, aesthetics, linguistic approaches to literature, manuscript studies, paleography, digital manuscript studies
