Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

AMANDA HOPKINS was teaching in English and French at the University of Warwick CORYJAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. AMANDA HOPKINS was teaching in English and French at the University of Warwick Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. CORYJAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Sue Niebrzydowski is Professor in Medieval Literature at Bangor University. She has published widely in the areas of medieval women's writing and gender and devotion. THOMAS H. CROFTS is Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, where he also co-directs the Minor in Classical and Medieval Studies.

• Foreword - Tony GrandIntroduction`So wel koude he me glose': The Wife of Bath and the Eroticism of Touch - Sue NiebrzydowskiThe Lady's Man: Gawain as a Lover in Middle English Literature - Cory RushtonErotic 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 RouseHow's Your Father? Sex and the Adolescent Girl in Sir Degarré - Margaret RobsonThe Female `Jewish' Libido in Medieval Culture - Anthony BaleEros and Error: Gross Sexual Transgression in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi - Michael CichonPerverse and Contrary Deeds: The Giant of Mont Saint Michel and the Alliterative Morte Arthure - Thomas Howard CroftsHer Desire and His: Letters between Fifteenth-century Lovers - Kristina HildebrandSex in the Sight of God: Theology and the Erotic in Peter of Blois' `Grates Ago Veneri' - Simon Meecham-JonesA Fine and Private Place - Jane BlissErotic Historiography: Writing the Self and History in Twelfth-century Romance and the Renaissance - Alexander Davis

[A]n impressive survey that invites us to rethink the role of sex in medieval English literature and thought.