Abstract
Attending to the representations of Christ’s Passion in late medieval English sermons, this essay considers how preachers depicted Christ’s suffering body not only as the paradigmatic site of affective devotion, but also as a site of imitation. The sermons meditate on the Passion itself as form, exploring the varied ways that parishioners might assume a form that is both exemplary and inimitable. This dialectic of singularity and exemplarity also plays out in the formal practices of the sermons; while these sermons communicate the importance of imitating the Passion, they also formally catalyse that relation, rhetorically modelling the mimetic structures of identifying with Christ.
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