This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the Renaissance. Tracing debate and dialogue across intellectual and literary...
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This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the Renaissance. Tracing debate and dialogue across intellectual and literary discourses, Corinne Saunders places Middle English literary portrayals of rape and ravishment in the context of shifting legal, theological and medical attitudes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-336) and index
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Rape and Ravishment; CONTENTS; Introduction; Secular Law: Rape and Raptus; The Church; The Threat of Rape: Saintly Women; Legendary History; Middle English Romance; Malory's Morte Darthur; Chaucer's Narrative of Rape; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX