Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature forges a new link between contemporary feminist and cultural theory and medieval history and literature.
This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist
In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner an
In Bodytalk, E. Jane Burns contends that female protagonists in medieval texts authored by men can be heard to talk back against the stereotyped and codified ro
This book is first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading rom