{"product_id":"the-body-and-the-soul-in-medieval-literature-9780859915458","title":"The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe theme of the `body and soul' relationship in medieval texts and modern reworkings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe theme of the body-and-soul relationship in medieval texts and in modern reworkings of medieval matter is explored in the articles here, specifically the representation of the body in romance; the relevance of bawdy tales to the cultural experience of authors and readers in the middle ages; the function of despair, or melancholy, in medieval and Renaissance literature; and the political significance of late medieval representations of `bodies' in the chroniclers' accounts of the Rising and in Gower's poems. Two articles are devoted to modern retellings of medieval themes: John Foxe's \u003ci\u003eActs and Monuments\u003c\/i\u003e, seen in relation to the traditional \u003ci\u003eacta martyrum\u003c\/i\u003e, and the medieval revival in Tory Britain exemplified in Douglas Oliver's \u003ci\u003eThe Infant and the Pearl\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e Contributors: \u003ci\u003ePAMELA JOSEPH BENSON, NIGEL S. THOMPSON, JON WHITMAN, JEROME MANDEL, BARBARA NOLAN, YASUNARI TAKADA, YVETTE MARCHAND, ROBERT F. YEAGER, JOERG O. FICHTE, JOHN KERRIGAN\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Piero Boitani","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280452333819,"sku":"9780859915458","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780859915458.jpg?v=1772483211","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-body-and-the-soul-in-medieval-literature-9780859915458","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}