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

This study attempts to analyze diverse aspects of the corporeality of cultural others in Middle English oriental romances. The theoretical introduction situates the romances in the context of anthropology of the body. The analysis includes a psychoanalytical perspective on an oriental female body in Chaucer’s Squire’s tale and Sir Ferumbras , anthropophagy in Richard le Coer de Lyon , slavery and hybridity in Floris and Blancheflour , Roberto Esposito’s theory of immunization and the question of