Sexual violence and rape in the Middle Ages
Subtitle: critical discourse in premodern German and European literature
By: Albrecht Classen
Series: Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture -- 7
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783110263374; 9783110263381
Subjects: Rape in literature; Violence in literature; German literature; History and criticism; Medieval Literature; Medieval and modern Latin literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Female suffering and rape in Hartmann von Aue's Erec; title: Nibelungenlied: a male poet reveals his fear of women; title: Date rape, or the breaking of a contract? the problematic case of Mauritius von Craûn: modern legal issues in a medieval context; title: Rape in medieval romance, with a focus on Heinrich von Dem Türlin's Diu crône; title: Rape in medieval Latin and middle high German poetry: with some reflections on Walther von der Vogelweide and the Carmina burana; title: Rape in late medieval mæren; title: Rape in the world of the peasant class in the late Middle Ages: Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring; title: Apollonius of Tyre, Mai und Beaflor, and other late medieval narratives: the suffering of young women within their families; title: Violence against women in late medieval popular song poetry and heroic epic songs; title: The critical treatment of rape in sixteenth century Schwänke literature: the case of Hans Wilhelm Kirchhoff's Wendunmuth; title: Epilogue.