Medieval Studies / Cultural Studies:
Basic Reading List

The following studies--although they do not represent a movement, a unified school of thought, or an agreed-upon methodology--work toward defining the practice of medieval cultural studies. These studies provided the background and context for the Cultural Frictions conference. 
Aers, David, ed. Culture and History: Essays on English Communities, Identities and Writing. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1992.

Baldwin, John W. The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France around 1200. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1994.

Bartlett, Anne Clark. Male Authors, Female Readers: Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature. Ithaca: Cornell U P, 1995.

Bisson, Thomas N., ed. Cultures of Power: Lordship, Status, and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1995.

Bynum, Caroline Walker. Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. New York: Zone Books, 1991.

Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. NY: Columbia UP, 1988.

Camille, Michael. The Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992.

 -----. The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image-Making in Medieval Art. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.

Dinshaw, Carolyn. "A Kiss Is Just a Kiss: Heterosexuality and Its Consolation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." diacritics 24.2-3 (1994): 205-26.

-----. "Getting Medieval: Pulp Fiction, Gawain, Foucault." In The Body and the Book. Ed. Dolores Frese and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. South Bend, IN: U of Notre Dame P, forthcoming.

Dollimore, Jonathan. "Augustine: Perversion and Privation." Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde/Freud to Foucault. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991. 131-47.

Fradenburg, Louise O. and Carla Freccero. "Premodern Sexualities in Europe," eds. GLQ 1.4 (1995) (journal special issue).

Frantzen, Allen. Desire for Orgins: New Language, Old English, and Teaching the Tradition. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1990.

Gellrich, Jesse. Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1995.

Gravdal, Kathryn. Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991.

Haidu, Peter. The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.

Kay, Sarah and Miri Rubin, eds. Framing Medieval Bodies. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 1994.

Lees, Clare, ed. Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994.

Lomperis, Linda and Sarah Stanbury, eds. Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1993.

Margherita, Gayle. The Romance of Origins: Language and Sexual Difference in Middle English Literature. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1994.

Martin, Jean-Clet. "Cartography of the Year 1000: Variations on A Thousand Plateaus." Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy. Ed. Constantin V. Boundas and Dorothea Olkowski. New York: Routledge, 1994. 265-88.

Menocal, Maria Rosa. Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1994.

Patterson, Lee. Chaucer and the Subject of History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

Partner, Nancy, ed. Studying Medieval Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism. Cambridge, Mass.: Medieval Academy of America, 1993.

Richards, Jeffrey. Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages. London and New York: Routledge, 1991.

Spiegel, Gabrielle M. Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.

Strohm, Paul. Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteeth-Century Texts. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.

Zizek, Slavoj. "Courtly Love, or, Woman as Thing." The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Woman and Causality. New York: Verso, 1995. 89-112.

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