Domestic violence in medieval texts / edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salisbury, Eve.

Donavin, Georgiana.

Price, Merrall Llewelyn, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family violence in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Physical Description:

viii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2002]

Contents:

Interpreting silence: domestic violence in the king's courts in East Anglia, 1422-1442 / Philippa Maddern

The "reasonable" laws of domestic violence in late medieval England / Emma Hawkes

Chaucer's "wife," the law, and the Middle English Breton Lays / Eve Salisbury

Taboo and transgression in Gower's "Apollonius of Tyre" / Georgiana Donavin

Reframing the violence of the father: reverse Oedipal fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of law's, and Prioress's tales / Barrie Ruth Straus

Not safe even in their own castles: reading domestic violence against children in four Middle English romances / Graham N. Drake

Domestic violence in the Decameron / Marilyn Migiel

Reading Riannon: the problematics of motherhood in Pwyll pendeuic dyuet / Christopher G. Nugent

The "homicidal woman" stories in the Roman de Thèbes, the Brut chronicles, and Deschamps's "Ballade 285" / Anna Roberts

Noah's wife: the shaming of the "trew" / Garrett P.J. Epp

Marriage, socialization, and domestic violence in the Life of Christina of Markyate / Robert Stanton

Imperial violence and the monstrous mother: cannibalism at the siege of Jerusalem / Merrall Llewelyn Price

The feminized world and divine violence: texts and images of the apocalypse / Anne Laskaya.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813024420

OCLC:

47183439