New Medieval Literatures

Volume Two

(Oxford University Press, 1998 ISBN 0-19-818476-x)

New Medieval Literatures is a new annual of work on the textual cultures of medieval Europe and beyond. The focus of Volume 2 is on continental European literatures as well as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin writings, in addition to exemplification of work on earlier periods. The essays in Volume 2 move from the streets of Paris, London, and English market towns to English monasteries, idealized pastoral spaces, Christian-Jewish-Muslim Spain, Rome, and fourteenth-century Oxford. The essays cohere around three important issues of cultural analysis: gender, space, and reading history.

Introduction: Gender, Space, Reading Histories
RITA COPELAND
The Spectral Jew
STEVEN F. KRUGER
Unmanned Men and Eunuchs of God: Peter Damian's Liber Gormorrhianus and the Sexual Politics of Papal Reform
LARRY SCANLON
Bel Acuell and the Improper Allegory of the Romance of the Rose
SIMON GAUNT
States of Siege: Violence, Place, Gender: Paris around 1400
HELEN SOLTERER
Metonymy, Montage, and Death in François Villon's Testament
JANE H. M. TAYLOR
Maytime in Late Medieval Courts
SUSAN CRANE
The Trouble with Harold: The Ideological Conext of the Vita Haroldi
ROBERT M. STEIN
Eliding the Interpreter: John Wyclif and Scriptural Truth
KANTIK GHOSH
'Strange and Wonderful Bills': Bill-Casting and Political Discourse in Late Medieval England
WENDY SCASE
Analytical Survey 2: We are Not Alone: Psychoanalytic Medievalism
LOUISE O. FRADENBURG