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Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-06 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied a
Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature
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This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In parti
The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture
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Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-11 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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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
Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
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Over the last twenty-five years, the ‘history of emotion’ field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This design
White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages
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This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues