| Description |
254 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : violence against woman and the habits of thought / Anna Roberts -- Violence of exegesis : reading the bodies of AElfric's female saints / Shari Horner -- Women, power, and violence in Orderic Vitalis's Historia ecclesiastica / Jean Blacker -- Mont St. Michel giant ; sexual violence and imperialism in the chronicles of Wace and Ladzamon / Laurie Finke and Martin Shielitman -- Consuming passions : variations on the eaten heart theme / Madeleine Jeay -- Rhetoric of incest in the Middle English Emare / Anne Laskaya -- "Quiting" Eve : violence against women in the Canterbury tales / Angela Jane Weisl -- Rivalry, rape, and manhood : Gower and Chaucer / Caro1yn Dinshaw -- Gender subversion and linguistic castration in fifteenth-century English translations of Christine de Pizan / Jane Chance -- Domesticating the Spanish inquisition / Deborah S. Ellis -- Violence, silence, and the memory of witches / Jody Enders. |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Violence in literature.
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Women in literature.
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| Added Author |
Roberts, Anna, 1966-
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| ISBN |
0813015669 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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