corinne saunders

A Concise Companion to Chaucer

This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer's major works, the contexts in...

The Body and the Arts

The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as ...

The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in...

A Companion to Romance

Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreakin...

A Companion to Medieval Poetry

MEDIEVAL POETRYIn a series of original essays from leading literary scholars, this Companion offe...

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood withi...

Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England

An exploration of the development of Middle English portrayals of rape and ravishment in the cont...

Romance Rewritten

New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation of medieval romance.The essays ...

Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature

Analysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend.Literary texts complicate our understandi...

Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance

The themes of magic and the supernatural in medieval romance are here fully explored and put into...

Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare

Essays consider the variety of responses to warfare and combat in medieval literature.War is a po...

Women and Medieval Literary Culture