Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and
the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English
imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It
is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries,
subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular
hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and
moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on
subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what
sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in
for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep
mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical,
affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers
important contributions to understanding different Middle English
genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau. -- .
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