TORY VANDEVENTER PEARMAN is Assistant Professor of English at Miami University Hamilton, USA. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Essays in Medieval Studies and The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability.

• Medieval Authoritative Discourse and the Disabled Female Body The Topos of Reproduction in Dame Sirith and the Merchant's Tale Excessive Wives and Bodily Punishment in the Book of the Knight and the Wife of Bath's Prologue Deviance, Punishment, and the Supernatural in Bisclavret, Sir Launfal, and the Testament of Cresseid Disability and the Procreative Body in the Book of Margery Kempe

TORY VANDEVENTER PEARMAN is Assistant Professor of English at Miami University Hamilton, USA. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Essays in Medieval Studies and The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability.

• Medieval Authoritative Discourse and the Disabled Female Body The Topos of Reproduction in Dame Sirith and the Merchant's Tale Excessive Wives and Bodily Punishment in the Book of the Knight and the Wife of Bath's Prologue Deviance, Punishment, and the Supernatural in Bisclavret, Sir Launfal, and the Testament of Cresseid Disability and the Procreative Body in the Book of Margery Kempe

TORY VANDEVENTER PEARMAN is Assistant Professor of English at Miami University Hamilton, USA. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Essays in Medieval Studies and The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability.

• Medieval Authoritative Discourse and the Disabled Female Body The Topos of Reproduction in Dame Sirith and the Merchant's Tale Excessive Wives and Bodily Punishment in the Book of the Knight and the Wife of Bath's Prologue Deviance, Punishment, and the Supernatural in Bisclavret, Sir Launfal, and the Testament of Cresseid Disability and the Procreative Body in the Book of Margery Kempe