| Description |
viii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Andrew Lynch and Philippa Maddern -- 'Swiche olde lewed wordes': Books about medieval love, medieval books about love and the medieval Book of Love / Mary Dove -- 'A fre liberal wille'. Charity in Piers Plowman / Pina Ford -- Friendship and love between women in early modern England / Patricia Crawford -- The body in archaic and classical Greek art / Judith Maitland -- Friend and adversary: Some reflections on the body and the soul in medieval English thought / Lee Jones -- 'The hoote blood ran freyshly uppon the erthe': A combat theme in Malory, and its extensions / Andrew Lynch -- Shaving, circumcision, blood and sin: Gendering the audience in John Mirk's sermons / Jennifer Smith -- 'Pucelle de Dieu' or 'Wicche of Fraunce': Fifteenth-century perceptions of Joan of Arc / Stephanie Tarbin -- She-man: Visual representations of witchcraft and sexuality in sixteenth-century Europe / Charles Zika -- Venus in drag: Female transvestism and the construction of sex difference in renaissance England / Clare Everett |
| Notes |
CIP confirmed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
Tertiary students |
| Subject |
Civilization, Medieval.
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Literature and society -- Europe.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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War and literature -- Europe.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045637
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Europe -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045784
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Europe -- Social conditions -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045755
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Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045754
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| Author |
Lynch, Andrew.
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Maddern, Philippa, 1952-
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| LC no. |
96138983 |
| ISBN |
1875560459 |
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