The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic.

List of contents

Introduction
`So wel koude he me glose': The Wife of Bath and the Eroticism of Touch - Sue Niebrzydowski
The Lady's Man: Gawain as a Lover in Middle English Literature - Cory Rushton
Erotic Magic: The Enchantress in Middle English Romance - Corinne Saunders
`wordy vnthur wede': Clothing, Nakedness and the Erotic in some Romances of Medieval Britain - Amanda Hopkins
`Some Like it Hot': The Medieval Eroticism of Heat - Robert Rouse
How's Your Father? Sex and the Adolescent Girl in Sir Degarré - Margaret Robson
The Female `Jewish' Libido in Medieval Culture - Anthony Bale
Eros and Error: Gross Sexual Transgression in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi - Michael Cichon
Perverse and Contrary Deeds: The Giant of Mont Saint Michel and the Alliterative Morte Arthure - Thomas Howard Crofts
Her Desire and His: Letters between Fifteenth-century Lovers - Kristina Hildebrand
Sex in the Sight of God: Theology and the Erotic in Peter of Blois' `Grates Ago Veneri' - Simon Meecham-Jones
A Fine and Private Place - Jane Bliss
Erotic Historiography: Writing the Self and History in Twelfth-century Romance and the Renaissance - Alexander Davis

About the author

Amanda Hopkins, Cory James Rushton

Product details

• Assisted by: Amanda Hopkins (Editor), Cory Rushton (Editor), Cory James Rushton (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781843844433
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-443-3
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 281 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)