Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts
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Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts

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eBook - ePub

Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Introduction: Violence against Women and the Habits of Thought
  7. 1. The Violence of Exegesis: Reading the Bodies of Ælfric’s Female Saints
  8. 2. Women, Power, and Violence in Orderic Vitalis’s Historia Ecclesiastica
  9. 3. The Mont St. Michel Giant: Sexual Violence and Imperialism in the Chronicles of Wace and Laʓamon
  10. 4. Consuming Passions: Variations on the Eaten Heart Theme
  11. 5. The Rhetoric of Incest in the Middle English Emaré
  12. 6. “Quiting” Eve: Violence against Women in the Canterbury Tales
  13. 7. Rivalry, Rape, and Manhood: Gower and Chaucer
  14. 8. Gender Subversion and Linguistic Castration in Fifteenth-Century English Translations of Christine de Pizan
  15. 9. Domesticating the Spanish Inquisition
  16. 10. Violence, Silence, and the Memory of Witches
  17. Contributors
  18. Index