Violence against women in medieval texts /
Roberts, Anna,1966-
Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida,
c1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature, Medieval
Violence in literature.
Women in literature.