| Description |
viii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin and Merrall Llewelyn Price -- Pt. 1. Domestic Violence and the Law -- 1. Interpreting Silence: Domestic Violence in the King's Courts in East Anglia, 1422-1442 / Philippa Maddern -- 2. The "Reasonable" Laws of Domestic Violence in Late Medieval England / Emma Hawkes -- Pt. 2. Fictional Histories: Domestic Violence and Literary/Legal Texts -- 3. Chaucer's "Wife," the Law and the Middle English Breton Lays / Eve Salisbury -- 4. Taboo and Transgression in Grower's "Apollonius of Tyre" / Georgiana Donavin -- 5. 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 -- 6. Not Safe Even in Their Own Castles: Reading Domestic Violence Against Children in Four Middle English Romances / Graham N. Drake -- 7. Domestic Violence in the Decameron / Marilyn Migiel -- 8. Reading Riannon: The Problematics of Motherhood in Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet / Christopher G. Nugent -- Pt. 3. Historical Fictions: Domestic Violence in Chronicle, Drama, Hagiography, and Illuminations -- 9. The "Homicidal Women" Stories in the Roman de Thebes, the Brut Chronicles, and Deschamps's "Ballade 285" / Anna Roberts -- 10. Noah's Wife: The Shaming of the "Trew" / Garrett P. J. Epp -- 11. Marriage, Socialization, and Domestic Violence in the Life of Christina of Maryate / Robert Stanton -- 12. Imperial Violence and the Monstrous Mother: Cannibalism at the Siege of Jerusalem / Merrall Llewelyn Price -- 13. The Feminized World and Divine Violence: Texts and Images of the Apocalypse / Anne Laskaya |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Family violence in literature.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Donavin, Georgiana.
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Salisbury, Eve.
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Price, Merrall Llewelyn, 1965-
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| LC no. |
2001034779 |
| ISBN |
0813024420 alkaline paper |
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