Rape and ravishment in the literature of medieval England
This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the Renaissance. Tracing debate and dialogue across intellectual and literary discourses, Corinne Saunders places Middle Englis...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Suffolk :
Boydell & Brewer
2001.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4205526x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Contemporary and the Contemporaneous
- 1. Secular Law: Rape and Raptus
- 2. The Church: Canon Law, Theology and Popular Teaching
- 3. The Threat of Rape: Saintly Women
- 4. Legendary History: Lucretia and Helen of Troy
- 5. Middle English Romance: Structures of Possession
- 6. Malory's Morte Darthur: A Romance Retrospective
- 7. 'A Dede of Men': Chaucer's Narrative of Rape.
