Sylvia Huot is Reader in Medieval French Literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She has held teaching positions at University of Chicago and Northern Illinois University and is a leading scholar of French Medieval literature. Her publications include From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Cornell UP 1987), The 'Romance of the Rose' and its Medieval Readers: Interpretation, Reception, Manuscript Transmission (CUP 1993), and Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet: The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony (Stanford UP 1997). She has also written numerous articles in scholarly journals and in edited collections of essays.

...a highly distinctive contribution to the study of cultural concepts of madness. It is an excellent achievment...

• Introduction ; 1. Abject insanity, madness sublime ; 2. The specular madman ; 3. Madness and social exclusion ; 4. Heterosexuality and its discontents ; 5. The living dead ; 6. Madness and the body ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

Sylvia Huot is Reader in Medieval French Literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She has held teaching positions at University of Chicago and Northern Illinois University and is a leading scholar of French Medieval literature. Her publications include From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Cornell UP 1987), The 'Romance of the Rose' and its Medieval Readers: Interpretation, Reception, Manuscript Transmission (CUP 1993), and Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet: The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony (Stanford UP 1997). She has also written numerous articles in scholarly journals and in edited collections of essays.

...a highly distinctive contribution to the study of cultural concepts of madness. It is an excellent achievment...

• Introduction ; 1. Abject insanity, madness sublime ; 2. The specular madman ; 3. Madness and social exclusion ; 4. Heterosexuality and its discontents ; 5. The living dead ; 6. Madness and the body ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

Sylvia Huot is Reader in Medieval French Literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She has held teaching positions at University of Chicago and Northern Illinois University and is a leading scholar of French Medieval literature. Her publications include From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Cornell UP 1987), The 'Romance of the Rose' and its Medieval Readers: Interpretation, Reception, Manuscript Transmission (CUP 1993), and Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet: The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony (Stanford UP 1997). She has also written numerous articles in scholarly journals and in edited collections of essays.

...a highly distinctive contribution to the study of cultural concepts of madness. It is an excellent achievment...

• Introduction ; 1. Abject insanity, madness sublime ; 2. The specular madman ; 3. Madness and social exclusion ; 4. Heterosexuality and its discontents ; 5. The living dead ; 6. Madness and the body ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index