Sexual Violence And Rape In The Middle Ages
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| Author | : Albrecht Classen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3110263378 |
Contrary to modern assumptions, sexual violence and rape were treated as severe crimes in the Middle Ages. This book examines the testimony in medieval and early modern German literature and traces the discourse on both aspects from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries. Most comments about rape come from male writers, and medieval literature contains numerous examples of rape scenes which are mostly viewed highly critically. Previous studies on this topic have focused on English, French, and Italian literature, whereas here the emphasis rests on German examples.
| Author | : Kathryn Gravdal |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2010-08-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0812200330 |
In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in connection with sexual violence. Gravdal demonstrates the variety of techniques through which medieval discourse made rape acceptable: sometimes through humor and aestheticization, sometimes through the use of social and political themes, but especially through the romanticism of rape scenes.
| Author | : Carissa M. Harris |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2018-12-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1501730428 |
In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. Harris's own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.
| Author | : C. Rose |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2016-04-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137104481 |
In thirteen studies of representations of rape in Medieval and Early Modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser, this volume argues that some form of sexual violence against women serves as a foundation of Western culture. The volume has two purposes: first, to explore the resistance these pervasive representations generate and have generated for readers - especially for the female reader- and second, to explore what these representations tell us about social formations governing the relationships between men and women. More particularly, Rose and Robertson are interested in how representations of rape manifest a given culture's understanding of the female subject in society.
| Author | : Hannah Skoda |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2013-02-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199670838 |
Describes and analyses brutality in the later Middle Ages, focusing on a thriving region of Northern France. Explores experiences of, and attitudes towards, violence. Offers fresh ways of thinking about violence in societies, and throws new light on the social life of villages and towns in a transitional period.
| Author | : S. Edwards |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-01-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781137364814 |
From devotional literature to political narratives, medieval texts propose that sexual violence victims have privileged moral, ethical, and spiritual insight. This book explores these discourses of survival in a wide range of medieval English texts, including letters of spiritual advice, legal cases, romances, and legendary histories.
| Author | : Anna Roberts |
| Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2018-10-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0813063701 |
This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents.
| Author | : Amanda Hopkins |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 184384379X |
An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and alchemical treatises.
| Author | : Caroline Dunn |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1107017009 |
The first comprehensive exploration of women's multifaceted experiences of forced and consensual ravishment in medieval England.
| Author | : Margery Kempe |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0140432515 |
The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373-c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her remarkable story late in life. It remains an extraordinary record of human faith and a portrait of a medieval woman of unforgettable character and courage.
