Autor: Robert Rouse

It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of 'doing’ is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of medieva …

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 volum …

An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and alchemical treatises. It is often said that the past is a foreign country …

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 di …

Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance – and medieval romances as objects themselves. Medieval romance narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and exch …

The first interdisciplinary enquiry into a key figure in medieval and early modern culture. Guy of Warwick is England’s other Arthur. Elevated to the status of national hero, his legend occupied a ce …

Investigation into the importance of the Anglo-Saxon past in medieval literature. As the point of origin, both real and imagined, of English law and group identity, the Anglo-Saxon past was important …

A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance. Medieval romance frequently, and perhaps characteristically, capitalises on the dramatic and suggestive possibil …

A comprehensive guide to the medieval popular romance, one of the age’s most important literary forms. Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the middle ages, yet desp …

Investigations into the heroic – or not – behaviour of the protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that th …

First comprehensive collection to be devoted to Sir Bevis, the most popular Middle English romance. Sir Bevis of Hampton is one of the most widespread and important Middle English romances. This book …

The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from th …

’Delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues.’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT This volume is a special issue dedicated to Professor Elizabeth Archibald, who has had such a …