Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

Introduction

+ Aims & Scope

+ Structure

+ History


Announcements

+ Updates

+ Calls for Papers

+ New Lectures

+ New Publications


Alphabetical Index

+ Author Index

+ Speaker Index


Chronological Index

+ Ancient History

+ Medieval History

+ Modern History


Geographical Index

+ African History

+ American History

+ Asian History

+ European History

+ Oceanian History


Topical Index

+ Prosecution

+ Cases

+ Types

+ Offenders

+ Victims

+ Society

+ Research

+ Representations


Resources

+ Institutions

+ Literature Search

+ Research

Start: Topical Index: Representations: Literary Texts:

Representations: Literary Texts:
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

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


[Info] Crawford, Candace. A Song of Rape and Infanticide: "Sir John Doth Play". M.A. Thesis, University of New Orleans, 2015.


General

Works: Seven Wise Masters

[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, 2022.

[Info] Barrington, Candace, et al. »Editors’ Introduction: #MeToo, Medieval Literature, and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy.« New Chaucer Studies 2 (2021): 1-9.

[Info] Bennewitz, Ingrid. »Lukretia, oder: über die literarischen Projektionen von der Macht der Männer und der Ohnmacht der Frauen. Darstellung und Bewertung von Vergewaltigung in der "Kaiserchronik" und im "Ritter vom Thurn".« Der frauwen buoch. Versuche zu einer feministischen Mediävistik. Edited by Ingrid Bennewitz. Göppingen 1989: 113-134.

[Info] Bremmer, Rolf H., Jr. »The Germanic context of "Cynewulf and Cyneheard" revisited.« Neophilologus 81 (1997): 445-465.

[Info] Burns, E. Jane. »Raping men. What’s motherhood got to do with it?« Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson et al. New York 2001: 127-160.

[Info] Burton, Joan B. »Abduction and elopement in the Byzantine novel.« Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies 41 (2000): 377-409.

[Info] Buschinger, Danielle. »Le viol dans la littérature allemande au Moyen Âge.« Amour, mariage et transgressions au Moyen Âge. Actes du colloque des 24-27 mars 1983. Edited by Danielle Buschinger et al. Göppingen 1984: 369-388.

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

[Info] Cannon, Christopher. »Afterword.« Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson et al. New York 2001: 411-416.

[Info] Cartlidge, Neil. »‘Therof seyus clerkus’. Slander, rape and Sir GowtherCultural encounters in the romance of medieval England. Edited by Corinne Saunders. Woodbridge 2005: 135-147.

[Info] Coats, Catherine R. »Rape as narrative strategy. Entexting woman in "her place"--A review essay of Kathryn Gravdal, Ravishing maidens.« Romanic review 84 (1993): 209-220.

[Info] Edwards, Suzanne M. Beyond raptus. Pedagogies and fantasies of sexual violence in late-medieval England. Ann Arbor 2006.

[Info] Edwards, Suzanne M. The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature. New York 2016.

[Info] Enders, Jody. »The spectacle of the scaffolding. Rape and the violent foundations of medieval theatre studies.« Theatre journal 56 (2004): 163-181.

[Info] Finke, Laurie A., et al. »The Mont St. Michel Giant. Sexual violence and imperialism in the chronicles of Wace and Layamon.« Violence against women in medieval texts. Edited by Anna Roberts. Gainesville 1998: 56-74.

[Info] Frakes, Jerold C. Brides and doom. Gender, property, and power in medieval German women’s epic. Philadelphia 1994.

[Info] Franc, Catherine. »The rejected suitor and rape in hagiography. The unusual case of Thecla.« Old English newsletter 34 (2001).

[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.

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

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

[Info] Gravdal, Kathryn. »Law and literature in the French Middle Ages. Rape law on trial in Le Roman de RenartRomantic review 82 (1991): 1-24.

[Info] Gravdal, Kathryn. Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law. Philadelphia 1991.

[Info] Harris, Clarissa M. »Rape Narratives, Courtly Critique, and the Pedagogy of Sexual Negotiation in the Middle English Pastourelle.« Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 46 (2016): 263-287.

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

[Info] Harris, Carissa M. »Teaching Consent: Medieval Pastourelles in the Undergraduate Classroom.« New Chaucer Studies 2 (2021): 10-17.

[Info] Haymes, Edward R. »The bridewinning, seduction, and rape sequence in ThidrekssagaIn hôhem prîse. A festschrift in honor of Ernst S. Dick, presented on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, April 7, 1989. Edited by Winder McConnell. Göppingen 1989: 145-152.

[Info] Heijkant, Marie-José. »La mésaventure érotique de Burletta della Diserta et le motif de la pucelle esforciée dans la Tavola RitondaZeitschrift für romanische Philologie 118 (2002): 182-194.

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

[Info] Henningfeld, Diane A. Contextualizing rape. Sexual violence in middle English literature. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1994.

[Info] Henningfeld, Diane A. »Damsels in Distress: Rape in Middle English Literature.« Siena Heights College. Adrian 1994.

[Info] Hesse, Elisabeth. »Der Fuchs und die Wölfin. Ein Vergleich der Hersanthandlung im Ysengrimus, im Roman de Renart und im Reinhart FuchsSchwierige Frauen – schwierige Männer in der Literatur des Mittelalters. Edited by Alois M. Haas et al. Bern 1999: 111-128.

[Info] Horner, Shari. »The language of rape in old English literature and law. Views from the Anglo-Saxon(ist)s.« Sex and sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England. Essays in memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder. Edited by Carol B. Pasternak et al. Tempe 2004: 149-181.

[Info] Jed, Stephanie H. Chaste thinking. The rape of Lucretia and the birth of humanism. Bloomington 1989.

[Info] Johnston, D.R. »The erotic poetry of the "Cywyddwyr".« Cambridge medieval Celtic studies 21 (1991): 63-94.

[Info] Jones, Catherine M. »Rape, redemption, and the grateful dead. Richars li biausGender transgressions. Crossing the normative barrier in Old French literature. Edited by Karen J. Taylor. New York 1998.

[Info] Jones, Nancy A. »The daughter’s text and the thread of lineage in the Old French PhilomenaRepresenting rape in medieval and early modern literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson et al. New York 2001: 161-187.

[Info] Kümper, Hiram. »Sexualität - Gewalt - Humor.« Valenzen des Lachens in der Vormoderne (1250-1750). Edited by Stefan Biessenecker et al. Bamberg 2012: 437-461.

[Info] Künzel, Christine. »»So soll sie laufen mit gesträubtem Haare...«. Zur Bedeutung der Auflösung der Frisur im Kontext der Darstellung sexueller Gewalt.« Haar tragen. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Annäherung. Edited by Christian Janecke. Cologne 2004: 121-138.

[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.

[Info] Lambert, Tonya M. Raping Lucretia. Rape in the law, literature and art of Renaissance Europe. M.A. Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 2001.

[Info] Ljungqvist, Fredrik C. »Rape in the Icelandic Sagas: An Insight in the Perceptions about Sexual Assaults on Women in the Old Norse World.« Journal of Family History 40 (2015): 431-447.

[Info] Lochrie, Karma. »Gender, sexual violence, and the politics of war in the Old English JudithClass and gender in early English literature. Intersections. Edited by Britton J. Harwood et al. Bloomington 1994: 1-20.

[Info] Mahoney, Peter. »Rape, Sex, Violence, and Disgrace in the Legends and Epic Texts of Medieval Spain.« Romance Quarterly 59 (2022): 158-173.

[Info] O’Sullivan, Daniel E. »Bringing the Bystander into the Humanities Classroom: Reading Ancient, Patristic, and Medieval Texts on the Continuum of Violence.« Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts. Edited by Alison Gulley. Leeds 2018: 47-62.

[Info] Paden, William D. »Rape in the pastourelle.« Romanic review 80 (1989): 331-349.

[Info] Paterson, Linda. »Gender negotiations in France during the central Middle Ages. The literary evidence.« The medieval world. Edited by Peter Linehan et al. London 2001: 246-266.

[Info] Potkay, Monica B., et al. Minding the body. Women and literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500. New York 1997.

[Info] Potkay, Monica B. »The violence of courtly exegesis in Sir Gawain and the Green KnightRepresenting rape in medieval and early modern literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson et al. New York 2001: 97-124.

[Info] Rendall, Steven. »Duction, or the archaeology of rape.« Philosophy and literature 17 (1993): 119-128.

[Info] Rieger, Dietmar. »Le motif du viol dans la littérature de la France médiévale. Entre norme courtoise et réalité courtoise.« Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 31 (1988): 241-267.

[Info] Rieger, Dietmar. »"Par force sos moi la mis". Intertextualité et littérature médiévale: L’exemple de la pastourelle et du roman arthurien.« Studi mediolatini e volgari 34 (1988): 79-96.

[Info] Rieger, Dietmar. »Le motif du viol dans la littérature de la France médiévale entre norme et réalité courtoises.« Chanter et dire. Études sur la littérature du Moyen Âge. By Dietmar Rieger. Paris 1997: 111-154.

[Info] Rieger, Dietmar. »"Par force sos moi la mis". Intertextualité et littérature médiévale: L’exemple de la pastourelle et du roman arthurien.« Chanter et dire. Études sur la littérature du Moyen Âge. By Dietmar Rieger. Paris 1997: 155-171.

[Info] Roberts, Anna, ed. Violence against women in medieval texts. Gainesville 1998.

[Info] Robertson, Elizabeth, et al., eds. Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature. New York 2001.

[Info] Rose, Christine M., et al. »Introduction. Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature.« Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson et al. New York 2001: 1-17.

[Info] Saly, Antoinette. »La demoiselle “esforciée” dans le roman arthurien.« Amour, mariage et transgressions au Moyen Âge. Actes du colloque des 24, 25, 26 et 27 mars 1983. Edited by Danielle Buschinger et al. Göppingen 1984: 215-224.

[Info] Saunders, Corinne J. »‘Symtyme the fende’. Questions of rape in Sir GowtherStudies in English language and literature. ‘Doubt wisely’: Papers in honour of E.G. Stanley. Edited by M.J. Toswell et al. London 1996: 286-303.

[Info] Saunders, Corinne. »A matter of consent. Middle English romance and the law of raptusMedieval women and the law. Edited by Noël J. Menuge. Woodbridge 2000: 105-124.

[Info] Saunders, Corinne. Rape and ravishment in the literature of medieval England. Woodbridge 2001.

[Info] Schotter, Anne. »Rhetoric versus rape in the medieval Latin PamphilusPhilological quarterly 71 (1992): 243-260.

[Info] Schotter, Anne H. »Rape in the medieval Latin comedies.« Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson et al. New York 2001: 241-253.

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

[Info] Spiewok, Wolfgang. »Die Vergewaltigung in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters.« Sexuelle Perversionen im Mittelalter. XXIX. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises "Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters," Brügge, Belgien, 22.-25. September 1994. Edited by Danielle Buschinger et al. Greifswald 1994: 193-206.

[Info] Spiewok, Wolfgang. »Le viol dans la littérature allemande au Moyen Âge.« La violence dans le monde médiéval. Aix-en-Provence 1994: 517-524.

[Info] Sylvester, Louise. »Reading rape in medieval literature.« Studies in medievalism 10 (1998): 120-135.

[Info] Tuchel, Susan. »Kastration und Notzucht in der mittelalterlichen Tierdichtung: Zur Integration des Übeltäters in die höfische Gesellschaft.« Reinardus 10 (1997): 153-168.

[Info] Tuchel, Susan. Kastration im Mittelalter. Düsseldorf 1998.

[Info] Urban, Misty. »Sexual Compulsion and Sexual Violence in the Lais of Marie de France.« Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts. Edited by Alison Gulley. Leeds 2018: 138-150.

[Info] Varty, Kenneth, et al. »Le viol dans l’Ysengrimus, les branches II-Va, et la branche I du Roman de Renart, et dans le Reinhart Fuchs d’Heinrich von Glichezare.« Amour, mariage et transgressions au Moyen Âge. Actes du colloque des 24-27 mars 1983. Edited by Danielle Buschinger et al. Göppingen 1984: 411-424.

[Info] Vasvári, Louise O. »Festive Phallic Discourse in the "Libro del Arcipreste".« La corónica 22 (1994): 89-117.

[Info] Vincensini, Jean-Jacques. »Viol de la fée, violence de féerique. Remarques sur la vocation anthropologique de la littérature.« La violence dans le monde médiéval. Aix-en-Provence 1994: 545-559.

[Info] Vines, Amy M. »Invisible Woman: Rape as a Chivalric Necessity in Medieval Romance.« Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain. Edited by Amanda Hopkins et al. Cambridge 2014: 161-180.

[Info] Virtue, Nancy E. Representations of rape in the Renaissance novella. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993.

[Info] Virtue, Nancy. »Rereading rape in two versions of "La fille du comte de Pontieu".« Fifteenth-century studies 27 (2001): 257-272.

[Info] Vitz, Evelyn B. »Rereading rape in medieval literature.« Partisan review 63 (1996): 280-291.

[Info] Vitz, Evelyn B. »Rereading rape in medieval literature. Literary, historical, and theoretical reflections.« Romanic review 88 (1997): 1-26.

[Info] West, Alex. »Saints and sodomites. Theological and literary depictions of rape and sexual aggression in the Middle Ages.« Proceedings of Borderlines Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference 2003. Edited by Julianne Nyhan et al. 2006.

[Info] Wettlaufer, Jörg. Das Herrenrecht der ersten Nacht. Hochzeit, Herrschaft und Heiratzins im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit. Frankfurt/Main 1999.

[Info] Wingard, Tim. »“Geaunt ys more Þan man”: Giants, Species Anxiety, and Rape in Middle English Romance.« 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 2018.

[Info] Woods, Majorie C. »Rape and the pedagogical rhetoric of sexual violence.« Criticism and dissent in the Middle Ages. Edited by Rita Copeland. Cambridge 1996: 56-86.


Early Middle Ages

[Info] Fee, Christopher. »Gendering the Cross: Rape, Matrimony, and Sexual Ecstasy in the Old English "The Dream of the Rood".« 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1999.

[Info] Lochric, Karma. »The Rape of Holofernes in Judith26th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1991.