Domestic violence in medieval texts /

''Challenges readers to acknowledge the extent to which violence figured in medieval texts and, with this recognition, to reconsider what the works teach us not only about the treatments and troping of victims in the medieval world but also how these patterns are a part of the social histo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Salisbury, Eve (Editor ), Donavin, Georgiana (Editor ), Price, Merrall Llewelyn, 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2002]
Temas:
Family violence in literature.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Violence familiale dans la littérature.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Family violence in literature
Literature, Medieval
Geweld.
Gezin.
Letterkunde.
Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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