Domestic violence in medieval texts / edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price.

Other author Salisbury, Eve.
Other author Donavin, Georgiana.
Other author Price, Merrall Llewelyn, 1965-
Format Book
Publication InfoGainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2002.
Descriptionviii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Family violence in literature.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001034779
ISBN0813024420 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN682.F34 D66 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold