Fantasies of the Other’s Body in Middle English Oriental Romance

The study analyzes the cultural others' corporeality in Middle English oriental romances. It includes among other a Lacanian reading of Chaucer's Squire's tale and Sir Ferumbras along with the topics of anthropophagy in Richard le Coer de Lyon, of slavery in Floris and Blancheflour, and of female grotesque in the English Charlemagne romances.