New Medieval Literatures is a new annual of work on the textual cultures of medieval Europe and beyond. The focus of Volume 2 is on continental European literatures as well as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin writings, in addition to exemplification of work on earlier periods. The essays cohere around three important issues of cultural analysis: gender, space, and reading history.

• List of Illustrations


• Introduction: Gender, Space, Reading Histories


• 1: Steven F. Kruger: The Spectral Jew


• 2: Larry Scanlon: Unmanned Men and Eunuchs of God: Peter Damian's Liber Gomorrhianus and the Sexual Politics of Papal Reform


• 3: Simon Gaunt: Bel Acueil and the Improper Allegory of the Romance of the Rose


• 4: Helen Solterer: States of Siege: Violence, Place, Gender, Paris around 1400


• 5: Jane H. M. Taylor: Metonymy, Montage, and Death in François Villon's Testament


• 6: Susan Crane: Maytime in Late Medieval Courts


• 7: Robert Stein: The Trouble with Harold: The Ideological Context of the Vita Haroldi


• 8: Kantik Ghosh: Eliding the Interpreter: John Wyclif and Scriptural Truth


• 9: Wendy Scase: `Strange and Wonderful Bills': Bill-casting and Political Discourse in Late Medieval England


• 10: Louise O. Fradenburg: Analytical Survey II: `We are Not Alone: Psychoanalytical Medievalism'


• Index