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THE NEW MIDDLE AGES BONNIE WHEELER, Series Editor The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cul- tures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. PUBLISHED BY PALGRAVE: Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Patronage, and Piety Medieval European and Heian Japanese edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly Women Writers edited by Barbara Stevenson and The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Cynthia Ho Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics by Gregory B. Stone Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages Presence and Presentation: Women in the by Laurel Amtower Chinese Literati Tradition Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of edited by Sherry J. Mou Investiture The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: edited by Stewart Gordon Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century Representing Rape in Medieval and Early France Modern Literature by Constant J. Mews edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Understanding Scholastic Thought with Christine M. Rose Foucault Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in by Philipp W. Rosemann the Middle Ages For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de edited by Francesca Canadé Sautman Burgh and Pamela Sheingorn by Frances A. Underhill Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages: Ocular Desires Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in by Suzannah Biernoff the Middle Ages edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Listen, Daughter: The Speculum Virginum Jane Weisl and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon edited by Constant J. 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Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-0-230-10980-3 All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-29229-5 ISBN 978-1-137-03741-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137037411 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sexuality, sociality, and cosmology in medieval literary texts / edited by Jennifer N. Brown & Marla Segol. p. cm.—(The new Middle Ages) 1. Literature, Medieval—History and criticism. 2. Sex in literature. 3. Cosmology, Medieval, in literature. 4. Religion in literature. 5. Religion and sociology. I. Brown, Jennifer N. (Jennifer Nancy) II. Segol, Marla. PN682.S37S49 2013 808(cid:2).02—dc23 2012031255 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: January 2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Transferred to Digital Printing in 2013
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