Böcker av Erin Felicia Labbie

Reveals the important links between medieval studies and Jacques Lacan. This book demonstrates how Lacan's theory of desire is bound to his reading of medieval texts. It alters the relationship between psychoanalysis and medieval studies and illuminates the ways that premodern and post-modern epochs and ideologies share a concern with the subject.

Interested in the ways in which medieval and early modern communities have acted as participants, observers, and interpreters of events and how they ascribed meaning to them, this collection includes essays that explore the concept of beholding and the experiences of individual and collective beholders of violence during the period.