Outputs (53)

The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (2021)
Book
Fuller, D., Saunders, C., & Macnaughton, J. (Eds.). (2021). The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4

This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between br... Read More about The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary.

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (2020)
Book

This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted acco... Read More about Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts.

Romance Rewritten: The Evolution of Middle English Romance. A Tribute to Helen Cooper (2018)
Book

The Mystical Theology of Margery Kempe: Writing the Inner Life (2017)
Book Chapter
Saunders, C. (2017). The Mystical Theology of Margery Kempe: Writing the Inner Life. In J. McLean, P. Tyler, & C. Cook (Eds.), Mystical Theology and Contemporary Spiritual Practice: Renewing the Contemplative Tradition (34-57). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315605388-4

Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices (2017)
Journal Article

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.

Beyond Nature: Magic, Enchantment and the Marvellous in Medieval Romance. (2016)
Book

Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance (2016)
Journal Article

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.

Hearing Medieval Voices (2015)
Journal Article

Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice (2015)
Book

Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke and play upon emotion in the audiences which... Read More about Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice.

The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine (2015)
Book

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.