Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • PART I: SECULAR LITERATURE AND DRAMA
  • 2 Religion, Sexuality, and Representation in the York Joseph's Troubles Pageant
  • 3 The Gentrification of Eve: Sexuality, Speech, and Self-regulation in Noble Conduct Literature
  • 4 Queer Copulation and the Pursuit of Divine Conjunction in Two Middle English Alchemical Poems
  • PART II: ROMANCE AND NARRATIVE
  • 5 Via erotica / via mystica: A Tour de force in the Merchant's Tale
  • 6 "My Lemman Swete": Gender and Passion in Pearl
  • PART III: SAINTS AND RELIGIOUS WOMEN
  • 7 Spectators of Martyrdom: Corporeality and Sexuality in the Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Margarete
  • 8 'The Woman Who Shares the King's Bed': The Innocent Eroticism of Gertrud the Great of Helfta
  • 9 Virgin, Mother, Whore: The Sexual Spirituality of Margery Kempe
  • PART IV: VISIONARIES AND MYSTICS
  • 10 Corpus Mysticum: Text as Body/Body as Text
  • 11 Cross-Dressing Souls: Same-Sex Desire and the Mystic Tradition in A Talkyng of the Loue of God
  • 12 "Mi bodi henge / wið þi bodi": The Paradox of Sensuality in þe Wohunge of Ure Lauerd
  • Bibliography
  • Index.