A "lively study of the tavern, inn, and brothel in the literature of medieval France...Cowell contrasts the literary domains of the carnal and the orthodox and inovatively assigns physical space to each...[he] concludes that drama, poetry, and other secular texts, when considered as a whole, are ultimately complicit in a revolution favoring an ethic or profit." Grey cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.