A Companion to Medieval Poetry

Corinne Saunders??is Professor in the Department of English Studies and Director of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Durham. A specialist in medieval literature and the history of ideas, her recent publications include??Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of ??Medieval England??(2001),??A Companion to Romance??(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004),??Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture??(co-edited with Jane Macnaughton, 2005),??Pearl??(co-edited with David Fuller, 2005),??A Concise Companion to Chaucer??(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006),??The Body and the Arts??(??co-edited with Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton, 2009), and??Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance??(2010). She is the English editor of the international journal of Medieval Studies,??Medium Ævum.