Title: Domestic violence in medieval texts /
Authors: Salisbury, Eve.; Donavin, Georgiana.; Price, Merrall Llewelyn, 1965-
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 2002
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.