Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Start: Topical Index: Representations: Literary Texts: Geoffrey Chaucer: 14th Century:

Representations: Literary Texts:
THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN

I n f o r m a t i o n

»The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer during the fourteenth century.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Medieval History: 14th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Cases: Mythological Offenders: Sextus Tarquinius; Mythological Victims: Lucretia | Types: General: Rape


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Adams, Michael. »Specular Rape: Reflections on Early Modern Reflections of the Present Day.« Centennial Review 41 (1997): 217-250.

[Info] Aloni, Gila. »Lucrece's 'Myght': Rhetorical/Sexual Potency and Potentiality in Geoffrey Chaucer's Legend of Lucrece.« Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29 (1999): 31-43.

[Info] Amsler, Mark. »Rape and Silence: Ovid's Mythography and Medieval Readers.«Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson et al. New York 2001: 61-96.

[Info] Armenti, Daniel M. Moralizing the Rape of Philomela in Late Medieval Commentary. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Massachusetts, 2020.

[Info] Cawsey, Kathy. »Florilegium’s Special Issue on Sexualized and Gendered Violence in the Middle Ages.« Florilegium 38 (2025): 1-3.

[Info] Gibson, Angela L. Fictions of Abduction in the Auchinleck Manuscript, the 'Pearl' Poet, Chaucer, and Malory. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Rochester, 2008.

[Info] Pugh, Tison. »Speech, Silence, and Teaching Chaucer's Rapes.« Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts. Edited by Alison Gulley. Leeds 2018: 77-90.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Baechle, Sarah. »"Dede(s) of men": Theorizing Masculinity and Political Consent in the Legend of Good Women.« 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 2026.

[Info] Newman, Florence. »On Trial: Rape in Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women and the Wife of Bath's Tale.« 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1994.