Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing discusses the role of sexuality in medieval devotional practice, looking in particular at religious writings circulating in England in the tenth to thirteenth centuries.

Autorentext
LARA FARINA is an Assistant Professor of English at West Virginia University, USA, where she teaches courses on medieval literature and culture, the history of sexuality, and materialist approaches to literature.

Inhalt
Before Affection: Christ I and the Social Erotic Dirty Words: Ancrene Wisse and the Sexual Interior Mystical Desire, Erotic Economy, and the Wooing Group The 'Popularization' of the Affective?: Friar Thomas of Hales and His Audience