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Contents List of Contributors vii Foreword and Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 Susannah Mary Chewning PART I: SECULAR LITERATURE AND DRAMA 2 Religion, Sexuality, and Representation in the York Joseph's Troubles Pageant Michael W. George 9 3 The Gentrification of Eve: Sexuality, Speech, and Self-regulation in Noble Conduct Literature M. Addison Amos 19 4 Queer Copulation and the Pursuit of Divine Conjunction in Two Middle English Alchemical Poems Cynthea Masson 37 PART II: ROMANCE AND NARRATIVE 5 Via erotica / via mystica: A Tour de force in the Merchant's Tale M.C. Bodden 51 6 "My Lemman Swete": Gender and Passion in Pearl Catherine S. Cox 73 PART III: SAINTS AND RELIGIOUS WOMEN 7 Witnessing the Divine: Corporeality and Sexuality in the Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Margarete Julie Fromer 87 8 The Woman Who Shares the King's Bed: The Innocent Eroticism of Gertrud the Great of Helfta Alexandra Barratt 105 9 Margery Kempe: Virgin, Mother, Whore Liz Herbert McAvoy 119 PART IV: VISIONARIES AND MYSTICS 10 Corpus Mysticum: Text as Body / Body as Text David Salomon 139 11 Cross-Dressing Souls: Same-Sex Desire and the Mystic Tradition in A Talkyng of the Loue of God Michelle M. Sauer 153 12 "Mi bodi henge / wið þi bodi": Sensuality, Mysticism, and the Medieval Female Imaginary Susannah Mary Chewning 177 Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism, Religion in literature, Sex Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500, Christian literature, English (Middle) History and criticism, Christianity and literature England History To 1500, Civilization, Medieval, in literature, Holy, The, in literature, Sex in literature, God in literature