Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Types: Rape:

Types: Rape:
RAPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Periods: 7th Century, 9th Century, 10th Century, 11th Century, 12th Century, 13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century


M e d i e v a l   H i s t o r y

General History

[Info] Gulley, Alison, ed. Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts. Leeds 2018.

[Info] Lundt,Bea, et al. »Misogynes Mittelalter? Gewalt und Geschlecht in transkultureller Perspektive. Das Beispiel der Sieben Weisen Meister.« Gewalt, Krieg und Geschlecht im Mittelalter . Edited by Amalie Fößel. Berlin 2020: 495-531.

[Info] Rydel, Courtney E. »Critiquing Rape Culture in Saint Winifred’s Passion.« 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 2020.

[Info] Rydel, Courtney E. »Critiquing Rape Culture in Saint Winifred’s Passion.« 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Virtual 2021.

[Info] Serrano Ruano, Delfina. »Doctrina legal islámica sobre el delito de violación: Escuela Malikí (ss. VII–XV).« Mujeres y Sociedad Islámica: Una Visión Plural. Edited by María I. Calero Secall. Málaga 2006: 145-172.

[Info] Serrano, Delfina. »Rape in Maliki Legal Doctrine and Practice (8th-15th Centuries C.E.).« Hawwa 5 (2007): 166-207.

[Info] Tareen, SherAli, et al. »Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure.« New Books in Islamic Studies New Books Network 2015.


Arabic History

[Info] Lagrange, Frédéric. »Modern Arabic Literature and the Disappearance of Mujun: Same-Sex Rape as a Case Study.« The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy: Essays in honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder. Edited by Adam Talib et al. 2014: 230-253.


European History

[Info] Bychowski, M.W. »The Rape of Silence: Transgender and the Romance of Abuse.« 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 2020.

[Info] Cahoon, Leslie. »Proserpina and Philomela: The Afterlife of Two Ovidian Rapes.« 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1992.

[Info] Cubero, José. La femme et le soldat: Viols et violences de guerre du Moyen hgÂge à nos jours. Paris 2012.

[Info] Curry, Anne. »The Theory and Practice of Female Immunity in the Medieval West.« The History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones. Iowa City 2006.

[Info] Curry, Anne. »The Theory and Practice of Female Immunity in the Medieval West.« Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights. Edited by Elizabeth D. Heineman. Philadelphia 2011: 173-188.

[Info] Ebel, Else. »Sittlichkeitsdelikte.« Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Vol. 28. Edited by Heinrich Beck et al. Berlin 2005.

[Info] Eder, Franz X. Eros, Wollust, Sünde: Sexualität in Europa von der Antike bis in die Frühe Neuzeit. Frankfurt/Main 2018.

[Info] Glendinning, Eleanor. »Reinventing Lucretia: Rape, Suicide and Redemption from Classical Antiquity to the Medieval Era.« International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2013).

[Info] Harris, Carissa M. »Negotiating Survival: Women’s Strategies of Resistance in Premodern Rape Lyrics.« 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 2019.

[Info] Henningfeld, Diane A. »Rape in Arthurian Literature: Legal and Cultural Contexts.« 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1992.

[Info] Hopwood, Keith. »Byzantine princesses and lustful Turks.« Rape in Antiquity: Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Edited by Susan Deacy et al. London 1997: 231-242.

[Info] House, Alyssa. »Women and Violence in Late Medieval Europe.« The Mirror 44 (2024): 130-139.

[Info] Jestice, Phyllis G. »"To see the daughters of the land": The Rape of Dinah and the Exegesis of Monastic Reform.« 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1997.

[Info] Kümper, Hiram. »Did Medieval Canon Law Invent Our Modern Notion of Rape? Revisiting the Idea of Consent Before and After 1200.« Law and Marriage in Medieval and Early Modern Times. Edited by Per Andersen et al. Copenhagen 2012: 127-138.

[Info] Kümper, Hiram. »Wann wurde Notzucht ein Sexualverbrechen? Konzepte sexueller Gewalt, ihre Judizierungs- und Historisierungshürden.« Tabu, Trauma und Triebbefriedigung. Aspekte erlittener und geschauter Gewalt. Edited by Andrea Penz et al. Graz 2012: 136-171.

[ [Info] Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. »Women and the Law in Early Ireland.« Chattel, Servant or Citizen: Women’s Status in Church, State and Society. Edited by Mary O’Dowd et al. Belfast 1995: 45-57.

[Info] Oliver, Lisi. »Forced and Unforced Rape in Early Irish Law.« Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 13 (1993): 93-106.

[Info] Raae, Hanne-Mette A. The Representation in Old Irish Law Texts of the Legal Position of Women in Early Medieval Ireland as regards the Ownership of Property. Ph.D. Thesis, National University of Ireland at Galway, 2013.

[Info] Saar, St. Chr. »Notzucht.« Lexikon des Mittelalters. Vol. 6. Edited by Norbert Angermann et al. Munich 1993: 1298-1299.

[Info] Seagroatt, Heather. »The Language and Literature of Rape.« 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1992.

[Info] Virtue, Nancy E. »A New Look at Medieval Rape Legislation.« The Role of Women in the Middle Ages: A Reassessment. Binghamton 1992.

[Info] von Schwerin, Claudius. »Notzucht.« Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Vol. 3. Edited by Johannes Hoops. Straßburg 1915-16: 347.

[Info] Wallace, Ashley N. Jeopardized Virginity an Analysis of Rape and Spiritual Virginity in Medieval Europe. M.A. Thesis, Florida State University, 2015

[Info] Woods, Marjorie C. »Rape Images in the Medieval Rhetorical Classroom.« Federation of North Texas Area Universities Rhetoric Symposium. Denton 1995.


English History

[Info] Baechle, Sarah, et al.,eds. Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature: With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles. University Park, PA, 2022.

[Info] Carrell, Jessica. »Indicted Knights: Female Agnecy and the Adjudication of Rape in Arthurian Romances.« 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 2020.

[Info] Jager, Katharine W. »“Our Very Moder in Kynde, of Our First Makyng”: Bodily Sovereignty and the Problematics of Rape.« 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 2017.

[Info] Leach, Katherine. »The Animality of Man: Rape, Incest, and Procreation in the Mabinogion49th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 2014.

[Info] MacFarlane, Bruce A. »Historical Development of the Offence of Rape.« 100 Years of the Criminal Code in Canada: Essays Commemorating the Centenary of the Canadian Criminal Code. Edited by Josiah Wood et al. Ottawa 1993: 1-79.


French History

[Info] Gravdal, Kathryn. »Camouflaging Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in the Medieval Pastourelle.« Romanic Review 76 (1985): 361-373.

[Info] Gravdal, Kathryn. »The Poetics of Rape Law in Medieval France.« Rape and Representation. Edited by Lynn A. Higgins et al. New York 1991: 207-226.

[Info] Sidhu, Nicole N. »Rape Cultures in Medieval France.« 2015 MLA Annual Convention. Vancouver 2015.


Icelandic History

[Info] Gade, Kari E. »Homosexuality and Rape of Males in Old Norse Law and Literature.« Scandinavian Studies 58 (1986): 124-141.

[Info] Gade, Kari E. »Homosexuality and Rape of Males in Old Norse Law and Literature.« History of Homosexuality in Europe and America. Edited by Wayne R. Dynes et al. New York 1992: 114-131.


Norwegisn History

[Info] Gade, Kari E. »Homosexuality and Rape of Males in Old Norse Law and Literature.« Scandinavian Studies 58 (1986): 124-141.

[Info] Gade, Kari E. »Homosexuality and Rape of Males in Old Norse Law and Literature.« History of Homosexuality in Europe and America. Edited by Wayne R. Dynes et al. New York 1992: 114-131.


Spanish History

[Info] Assis, Yom T. »Sexual Behaviour in Mediaeval Hispano-Jewish Society.« Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky. Edited by Ada Rapoport-Albert et al. London 1988: 25-59.

[Info] Assis, Yom T. »El comportament sexual en la societat hispanojueva de l’edat mitjana.« Tamid 3 (2000-01): 7-47.

[Info] Winer, Rebecca L. »Rape, Seduction, and the Law: The Case of Causida de Vernet.« 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1996.


Scottish History

[Info] Adams, Lauren W. »Raped Saints: Felix Culpa as a Marian Motif in Saints’ Lives of Post-Conquest Wales and Scotland.« Stanford-Berkeley Medieval Studies Symposium. Stanford 2022.

[Info] Baechle, Sarah, et al.,eds. Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature: With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles University Park, PA, 2022.

Welsh History

[Info] Adams, Lauren W. »Raped Saints: Felix Culpa as a Marian Motif in Saints’ Lives of Post-Conquest Wales and Scotland.« Stanford-Berkeley Medieval Studies Symposium. Stanford 2022.