This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid’s myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille’s Plaint of Na

This collection of essays asks contributors to take the capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about what medieval queers would have looke

Chaucer's Comic Providence presents readings of five of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that dramatize sexual division and the lack of rapport between the sexes. The

Violence, Trauma, and Memory: Responses to War in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World brings together eight essays that examine medieval and early modern v

Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living fore