This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings

This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived exp

This volume takes Dante's rich and multifaceted discourse of desire, from the Vita Nova to the Commedia, as a point of departure in investigating medieval conce

Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relati

Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture exposes the complexity of bodily exposure in medieval devotion and contemporary pornographic cultures. Through read