The body and the soul in medieval literature
Subtitle: the J.A.W. Bennett memorial lectures, tenth series, Perugia, 1998
By: Piero Boitani, Anna Torti, eds.
Contributors: Boitani, Piero.; Torti, Anna.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.; Body and soul in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Pamela Joseph Benson, "Gualdrada's two bodies: female and civic virtue in medieval Florence"
pagenum: 1-15; label: 2
title: N. S. Thompson, "Man's flesh and woman's spirit in the Decameron and the Canterbury tales"
pagenum: 17-29; label: 3
title: Jon Whitman, "The body and the struggle for the soul of romance: La queste del saint graal"
pagenum: 31-61; label: 4
title: Jerome Mandel, "Polymorphous sexualites in Chrétien de Troyes and Sir Thomas Malory"
pagenum: 63-78; label: 5
title: Barbara Nolan, "Promiscuous fictions: medieval bawdy tales and their textual liaisons"
pagenum: 79-105; label: 6
title: Yasunari Takada, "'Commne profit' and libidinal dissemination in Chaucer"
pagenum: 107-121; label: 7
title: Yvette Marie Marchand, "Towards a psychosomatic view of human nature: Chaucer, Spenser, Burton"
pagenum: 123-144; label: 8
title: Robert F. Yeager, "The body politic and the politics of bodies in John Gower"
pagenum: 145-165; label: 9
title: Joerg O. Fichte, "Foxe's Acts and monuments: the spirit's triumph over the flesh"
pagenum: 167-180; label: 10
title: John Kerrigan, "Mrs. Thatcher's Pearl"
pagenum: 181-199