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Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices (2017)
Journal Article
Saunders, C., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 8(2), 209-217. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-017-0051-5

This article draws on research from the major collaborative research project Hearing the Voice, based at Durham University, to reconsider and foreground Margery Kempe’s inner voices, and hence, to return to an emphasis on inner, spiritual experience... Read More about Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices.

Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance (2016)
Journal Article
Saunders, C. (2016). Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance. The Chaucer Review, 51(1), 11-30. https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.51.1.0011

Medieval thought emphasized the integration of thinking and feeling, an integration central to literary representations of mind, body, and emotion, and to the idea of reading as affective. Chaucer's romance writings are profoundly concerned with the... Read More about Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance.

The Medieval Law of Rape (2001)
Journal Article
Saunders, C. J. (2001). The Medieval Law of Rape. King's Law Journal, 19-48