Feminist approaches to the body in medieval literature Petrarchs beloved body : Italia mia Margaret Brose Unruly bodies and ruling practices : Chaucers Physicians tale as socially symbolic act Linda Lomperis The body politic and the queens adulterous body in French romance Peggy McCracken Purity and danger : The paradox of Marys body and the en gendering of the Infancy narrative in the English Mystery Cycles Theresa Coletti Feminist masterplots : the gaze on the body of Pearls dead girl Sarah Stanbury Originary fantasies and Chaucers Book of the duchess Gayle Margherita Medieval medical views of women and female spirituality in the Ancrene wisse and Julian of Norwichs Showings Elizabeth Robertson Body into text : the Book of Margery Kempe Wendy Harding The prick which is not one : how women talk back in Old French fabliaux E. Jane Burns At the bottom of mirage a womans body : Le Roman de la rose of Jean Renart Helen Solterer