The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature

The theme of the `body and soul' relationship in medieval texts and modern reworkings.

List of contents

Gualdrada's Two Bodies: Female and Civic Virtue in Medieval Florence - Pamela Joseph Benson
Man's Flesh and Woman's Spirit in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales - Nigel S Thompson
The Body and the Struggle for the Soul of Romance: La Queste del Saint Graal - Jon Whitman
`Polymorphous Sexualities' in Chretian de Troyes and Sir Thomas Malory - Jerome Mandel
Promiscuous Fictions: Medieval Bawdy Tales and Their Textual Liaisons - Barbara Nolan
`Commune Profit' and Libidinal Dissemination in Chaucer - Yasunari Takada
Towards a Psychosomatic View of Human Nature: Chaucer, Spencer, Burton - Yvette Marie Marchand
The Body Politic and the Politics of Bodies in the Poetry of John Gower - Robert F. Yeager
Foxe's Acts and Monuments: The Spirit's Triumph over the Flesh - Joerg O Fichte
Mrs Thatcher's Pearl - John Kerrigan

About the author

Piero Boitani, Anna Torti

Product details

• Authors: Piero Boitani
• Assisted by: Piero Boitani (Editor), Anna Torti (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.1999
• EAN: 9780859915458
• ISBN: 978-0-85991-545-8
• No. of pages: 223
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 242 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: J.A.W.Bennett Memorial Lecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literature - Classics / Criticism