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Violence against women in medieval texts

Author: Anna Kłosowska
Publisher: Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anna Kłosowska
ISBN: 0813015669 9780813015668
OCLC Number: 38055898
Description: 254 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: violence against woman and the habits of thought / Anna Roberts --
The violence of exegesis: reading the bodies of Ælfric's female saints / Shari Horner --
Women, power, and violence in Orderic Vitalis's Historia Ecclesiastica / Jean Blacker --
The Mont St. Michel giant; sexual violence and imperialism in the chronicles of Wace and Ladzamon / Laurie Finke and Martin Shielitman --
Consuming passions: variations on the eaten heart theme / Madeleine Jeay --
The rhetoric of incest in the Middle English Emaré / Anne Laskaya --
"Quiting" Eve: violence against women in the Canterbury Tales / Angela Jane Weisl --
Rivalry, rape, and manhood: Gower and Chaucer / Caro1yn Dinshaw --
Gender subversion and linguistic castration in fifteenth-century English translations of Christine de Pizan / Jane Chance --
Domesticating the Spanish inquisition / Deborah S. Ellis --
Violence, silence, and the memory of witches / Jody Enders.
Responsibility: edited by Anna Roberts.

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