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Author:   Eve Salisbury ,  Georgiana Donavin ,  Merrall Llewelyn Price
Publisher:   University Press of Florida
Imprint:   University Press of Florida
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.30cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9780813024424

ISBN 10:   0813024420
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   28 February 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

"Introduction, by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price Part One. Domestic Violence and the Law 1. Interpreting Silence: Domestic Violence in the King's Courts in East Anglia, 1422-1442, by Philippa Maddern 2. The """"Reasonable"""" Laws of Domestic Violence in Late Medieval England, by Emma Hawkes Part Two. Fictional Histories: Domestic Violence and Literary/Legal Texts 3. Chaucer's """"Wife,"""" the Law, and the Middle English Breton Lays, by Eve Salisbury 4. Taboo and Transgression in Gower's Appollonius of Tyre, by 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, by Barrie Ruth Straus 6. Not Safe Even in Their Own Castles: Reading Domestic Violence Against Children in Four Middle English Romances, by Graham N. Drake 7. Domestic Violence in the Decameron, by Marilyn Mlgiel 8. Reading Riannon: The Problematics of Motherhood in Pwyll Pendeuic, by Christopher G. Nugent Part Three, 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' """"Ballade 285,"""" by Anna Roberts 10. Noah's Wife: The Shaming of the """"Trew,"""" by Garrett P.J. Epp 11. Marriage, Socialization, and Domestic Violence in The Life of Christina of Markyate, by Robert Stanton 12. Imperial Violence and the Monstrous Mother: Cannibalism at the Stege of Jerusalem, by Merrall Llewelyn Price 13. The Feminized World and Divine Violence: Texts and Images of the Apocalypse, by Anne Laskaya"

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Challenges readers to acknowledge the extent to which violence figured in medieval texts. - Ann Dobyns, University of Denver

Author Information

Eve Salisbury in assistant professor of English at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. She is a coeditor of The Middle English Breton Lays and The Trials and Joys of Marriage (forthcoming). Georgiana Donavin is associate professor of English at Westminster College, Salt Lake City, She is the author of Incest Narratives and the Structure of Gower's """"Confessio Amantis."""" Merrall L. Price has written articles on violence in the Middle Ages and is currently pursuing research on anti-Semitism and reproductive politics in late medieval Europe and contemporary North America.

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