Ne Medieval Literatures Volume II [Hardcover]

New Medieval Literaturesis a new annual of work on the textual cultures of medieval Europe and beyond. The focus of Volume 2 is on continental European literatures as well as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin writings, in addition to exemplification of work on earlier periods. The essays cohere around three important issues of cultural analysis: gender, space, and reading history.

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Gender, Space, Reading Histories,Rita Copeland
1. The Spectral Jew,Steven F. Kruger
2. Unmanned Men and Eunuchs of God: Peter Damian'sLiber Gomorrhianusand the Sexual Politics of Papal Reform,Larry Scanlon
3. Bel Acueil and the Improper Allegory of theRomance of the Rose,Simon Gaunt
4. States of Siege: Violence, Place, Gender, Paris around 1400,Helen Solterer
5. Metonymy, Montage, and Death in Fran?ois Villon'sTestament,Jane H. M. Taylor
6. Maytime in Late Medieval Courts,Susan Crane
7. The Trouble with Harold: The Ideological Context of theVita Haroldi,Robert Stein
8. Eliding the Interpreter: John Wyclif and Scriptural Truth,Kantik Ghosh
9. `Strange and Wonderful Bills': Bill-casting and Political Discourse in Late Medieval England,Wendy Scase
10. Analytical Survey II: `We are Not Alone: Psychoanalytical Medievalism',Louise O. Fradenburg
Index