Recognizing that many of us teach the medieval English women mystics Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich in survey courses, this essay attempts to put these writers in context for teachers who may have only a passing familiarity with the period. Focusing on passages of their writings found in the Longman and Norton anthologies of British…

Analyzes Grendel ("Beowulf"), the Green Knight ("Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"), and the Pardoner ("The Canterbury Tales"). Notes that they are all "queer" characters in that they are not typical men of the time and they all pose a challenge or threat to normative homosocial desire. Suggests that…

The author makes, in her words, a simplistic parallel between the rejection of white culture by American Negroes and the rejection of western literature, particularly the predominantly Christian literature of the Medieval and Renaissance periods in England. (MM)

Argues that a recognition of the non-representational nature of the Corpus Christi cycles yields an awareness of the rich, multidimensional theatrical panorama" they created. (Author/RD)

According to Marxist Theory, allegory existed to reflect and reinforce what were held to be proper relationships between the feudal and renaissance ruling class ideologies. Comment by Nancy Hoffman. (RB)

The romance as a form of literary narrative retains its popularity because romance translates into conscious forms and unconscious struggles everyone goes through. (JH)