Body against soul : gender and sowlehele in Middle English allegory

Acknowledgments . . ix

Introduction . . 1
Chapter 1 - Thought Enfleshed: Philosophy and Psychology as Figured in Latin Allegory . . 31
Chapter 2 - Allegorizing the Split Self: A Middle English Debate Between the Body and the Soul . . 70
Chapter 3 - "The Soul Is the Prison of the Body": Pedagogy, Punishment, and Self-Love in a Middle English Debate . . 105
Chapter 4 - Defending the Female Self: "Sawles Warde" and Sowlehele . . 139
Chapter 5 - Promising the Female, Delivering the Male: Transformations of Gender in Piers Plowman . . 168
Conclusion . . 197

Appendix: In a Thestri Stude I Stod (I Stood in a Dark Place) . . 203
Bibliography . . 207
Index . . 219