New Medieval Literatures : Volume V

New Medieval Literatures 5 features innovative articles from leading senior scholars. Subjects include the cultural significance of Virgil's Aeneid during the English Peasants' Revolt, images of the pagan past in fourteenth-century London, medieval stage accidents and modern corollaries, and a survey of recent research on medieval women's literacy. Other essays offer original studies of martyrdom and the aesthetics of pain, sainthood and power, and virginity and erotic desire.