Leitch's book expands our understanding of a neglected area of medieval mentalite, enabling new interpretations of key texts. Arthurian scholars will enjoy rethinking the many sleep-related scenes in the romance corpus through the insights presented in this fascinating book.
Carolyne Larrington,St John's College, University of Oxford, Arthurian Literature 2023
Introduction: remarkable sleep
1 Emotions, epistemology and the nature of sleep
2 Ethics, appetite and the dangers of sleep
3 Sleeping spaces and the circumscription of desire
4 The hermeneutics of sleep in Chaucer's dream poems
Coda: 'all good letters were layde a slepe': medieval sleep and early modern heirs
Index