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9 - Make me

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2026

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This chapter offers an invitation in the form of an imperative. “Make me” is, after all, both a gesture of resistance and a summons to creation. Through readings of Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Simone Weil, the chapter meditates upon the erotics of making and remaking. Finally, it turns to the praise of creation in the work of poets Wendell Berry and Kimberly Johnson, as praise of the world allows the world to become newly, differently visible. A praised world is, at least potentially, a remade world: it is a world transfigured.

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Transfiguring medievalism
Poetry, attention, and the mysteries of the body
, pp. 163 - 179
Publisher: Manchester University Press
First published in: 2026

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  • Make me
  • Cary Howie
  • Book: Transfiguring medievalism
  • Online publication: 26 February 2026
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  • Make me
  • Cary Howie
  • Book: Transfiguring medievalism
  • Online publication: 26 February 2026
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