Violence against women in medieval texts / edited by Anna Roberts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kłosowska, Anna, 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Violence--History--To 1500--Sources.

Violence.

Violence in literature.

Women in literature.

Genre:

Sources

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p. )

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: Violence against Women and the Habits of Thought; 1. The Violence of Exegesis: Reading the Bodies of AElfric's Female Saints; 2. Women, Power, and Violence in Orderic Vitalis's Historia Ecclesiastica; 3. The Mont St. Michel Giant: Sexual Violence and Imperialism in the Chronicles of Wace and Laʓamon; 4. Consuming Passions: Variations on the Eaten Heart Theme; 5. The Rhetoric of Incest in the Middle English Emare; 6. "Quiting" Eve: Violence against Women in the Canterbury Tales

7. Rivalry, Rape, and Manhood: Gower and Chaucer8. Gender Subversion and Linguistic Castration in Fifteenth-Century English Translations of Christine de Pizan; 9. Domesticating the Spanish Inquisition; 10. Violence, Silence, and the Memory of Witches; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-6370-1

0-8130-2330-0

OCLC:

1564601829