Amanda Hopkins & Cory James Rushton 
The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain [EPUB ebook] 

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.


This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath’s opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the interplay between religion and the erotic, and the hedonistic horrors of the cannibalistic Giant of Mont St Michel.


Contributors: ALEX DAVIS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, JANE BLISS, SUE NIEBRZYDOWSKI, KRISTINA HILDEBRAND, ANTHONY BALE, CORY JAMES RUSHTON, CORINNE SAUNDERS, AMANDA HOPKINS, ROBERT ROUSE, MARGARET ROBSON, THOMAS H. CROFTS III, MICHAEL CICHON.



AMANDA HOPKINS teaches in the department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and the department of French at the University of Warwick; CORY RUSHTON is in the Department of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Tabella dei contenuti

Foreword – Tony Grand

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

Circa l’autore

THOMAS H CROFTS is Professor of English at East Tennessee State University.