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This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, the contributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the interplay between religion and the erotic, and the hedonistic horrors of the cannibalistic Giant of Mont St Michel. Contributors: ALEX DAVIS, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, JANE BLISS, SUE NIEBRZYDOWSKI, KRISTINA HILDEBRAND, ANTHONY BALE, CORY JAMES RUSHTON, CORINNE SAUNDERS, AMANDA HOPKINS, ROBERT ROUSE, MARGARET ROBSON, THOMAS H. CROFTS III, MICHAEL CICHON. AMANDA HOPKINS teaches in the department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and the department of French at the University of Warwick. CORY RUSHTON is in the Department of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Literature, Medieval --- Eroticism in literature. --- Littérature médiévale --- Erotisme dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature médiévale --- Erotisme dans la littérature --- English literature --- Great Britain --- Literatures --- Erotica in literature --- Érotisme --- Littérature anglaise --- Dans la littérature --- 450-1100 (vieil anglais) --- Thèmes, motifs --- British literature

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This book is devoted to the study of multilingual Britain in the later medieval period, from the Norman Conquest to John Skelton. It brings together experts from different disciplines — history, linguistics, and literature - in a joint effort to recover the complexities of spoken and written communication in the Middle Ages. Each author focuses on one specific text or text type, and demonstrates by example what careful analysis can reveal about the nature of medieval multilingualism and about medieval attitudes to the different living languages of later medieval Britain. There are chapters on charters, sermons, religious prose, glossaries, manorial records, biblical translations, chronicles, and the macaronic poetry of William Langland and John Skelton. By addressing the full range of languages spoken and written in later medieval Britain (Latin, French, Old Norse, Welsh, Cornish, English, Dutch, and Hebrew), this collection reveals the linguistic situation of the period in its true diversity and shows the resourcefulness of medieval people when faced with the need to communicate. For medieval writers and readers, the ability to move between languages opened up a wealth of possibilities: possibilities for subtle changes of register, for counterpoint, for linguistic playfulness, and, perhaps most importantly, for texts which extend a particular challenge to the reader to engage with them.

Old English literature --- Historical linguistics --- English language --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Multilinguisme --- --Grande-Bretagne --- --Moyen âge, --- 1066-1520 --- --Colloque --- --2008 --- --Bristol --- --actes --- --Foreign elements --- History --- Foreign elements --- Great Britain --- Languages --- Multilingualism and literature --- Macaronic literature --- Sermons, Medieval --- Sources. --- Foreign elements. --- Variation. --- History and criticism. --- Texts --- To 1500 --- Sources --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Variation --- History and criticism --- Sermons [Medieval ] --- English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Foreign elements --- Languages in contact - Great Britain - History - To 1500 --- Multilingualism - Great Britain - History - To 1500 --- English language - Great Britain - Foreign elements --- Manuscripts, Medieval - Great Britain --- Moyen âge, 476-1492 --- Colloque --- Grande-Bretagne --- Bristol --- Great Britain - Languages --- Germanic languages

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An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and alchemical treatises. It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of "doing" is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised by a polarising dichotomy between the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of romance on one hand, and the darkly imagined and misogyny of an unenlightened "medieval" sexuality on the other. British medieval sexual culture also exhibits such dualities through the influential paradigms of sinner or saint, virgin or whore, and protector or defiler of women. However, such sexual identities are rarely coherent or stable, and it is in the grey areas, the interstices between normative modes of sexuality, that we find the most compelling instances of erotic frisson and sexual expression. This collection of essays brings together a wide-ranging discussion of the sexual possibilities and fantasies of medieval Britain as they manifest themselves in the literature of the period. Taking as their matter texts and authors as diverse as Chaucer, Gower, Dunbar, Malory, alchemical treatises, and romances, the contributions reveal a surprising variety of attitudes, strategies and sexual subject positions.

English literature --- Sex in literature. --- Littérature anglaise --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs

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Old English literature --- History of civilization --- anno 1200-1499 --- Great Britain

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Old French literature