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Sexual violence and rape in the Middle Ages : a critical discourse in premodern German and European literature /
Contrary to modern assumptions, sexual violence and rape were treated as severe crimes in the Middle Ages. This book examines the testimony in medieval and early modern German literature and traces the discourse on both aspects from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries. Most comments about ra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ;
7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Female suffering and rape in Hartmann von Aue's Erec
- Nibelungenlied: a male poet reveals his fear of women
- Date rape, or the breaking of a contract? the problematic case of Mauritius von Craûn: modern legal issues in a medieval context
- Rape in medieval romance, with a focus on Heinrich von Dem Türlin's Diu crône
- Rape in medieval Latin and middle high German poetry: with some reflections on Walther von der Vogelweide and the Carmina burana
- Rape in late medieval mæren
- Rape in the world of the peasant class in the late Middle Ages: Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring
- Apollonius of Tyre, Mai und Beaflor, and other late medieval narratives: the suffering of young women within their families
- Violence against women in late medieval popular song poetry and heroic epic songs
- The critical treatment of rape in sixteenth century Schwänke literature: the case of Hans Wilhelm Kirchhoff's Wendunmuth
- Epilogue.