Books in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series

These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas or images in medieval art and literature.

A collection of essays which explore a variety of sources, contributing work on a diverse range of topics including: sources for sexuality in Late Lombard Italy; the problematic reception of early medieval penitentials by modern readers; and sexuality as experienced by the desert fathers and mothers.

Demonstrates the emergence of a profoundly negative image of the Jews that established many of the stereotypes of classic Christian anti-Semitism. This work argues that the turning point in relations between Christians and Jews occurred in the eleventh century, especially when the first wave of persecutions of the Jews took place.

This collection visits the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend and is a companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Routledge, 2002), considering speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new questions about the poetry and its reception.