Father Chaucer and the Apologists : Cecily Chaumpaigne and 700 Years of Rape Culture / Sarah Baechle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baechle, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Rape culture--History.

Rape culture.

Sex crimes in literature.

England--Civilization--1066-1485.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2025]

Summary:

On May 4, 1380, Cecily Chaumpaigne filed a quitclaim with the Chancery in Westminster, releasing the poet Geoffrey Chaucer from any prosecution de raptu meo (on account of my rape).This legal document, lost for centuries, has haunted Chaucer studies since its rediscovery in 1873.

Contents:

Intro

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

AcAcknowledgments

Introduction

Notes to Introduction

Chapter 1: Class Coercions Victorian Sexuality, Epistemologies of Consent, and the Miller's Tale

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter 2:Letters of the Law Cautionary Directives, Discourses of Trauma, and the Reeve's Tale

Notes to Chapter 2

Chapter 3: Reasonable Rapists Myths of Consent, the Mistake ofF act Defense, and Troilus and Criseyde

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter 4: Rapists with Potential Philogynist Chaucer, The Wife of Bath, and the Work of Reparation

Notes to Chapter 4

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Baechle, Sarah Father Chaucer and the Apologists

ISBN:

9780271099781

OCLC:

1521499349