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Violence against women in medieval texts / edited by Anna Roberts.
Van Pelt Library PN682.V55 V55 1998
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LIBRA PN682.V55 V55 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Violence--History--To 1500--Sources.
- Violence.
- Violence in literature.
- Women in literature.
- History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, [1998]
- Contents:
- Introduction: violence against woman and the habits of thought / Anna Roberts
- The violence of exegesis: reading the bodies of Ælfric's female saints / Shari Horner
- Women, power, and violence in Orderic Vitalis's Historia Ecclesiastica / Jean Blacker
- The 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
- The rhetoric of incest in the Middle English Emaré / 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813015669
- 9780813015668
- 0813064945
- 9780813064949
- OCLC:
- 38055898
- Publisher Number:
- 99978846205
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