Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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RELIGIOUS TEXTS

Christianity

I n f o r m a t i o n

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

Sacred Texts: Bible | Apocrypha: Acts of John, Acts of Paul and Thecla | Gnostic Texts: Apocryphon of John, Hypostasis of the Archons, Life of Adam and Eve, On the Origin of the World, Testimony of Truth | Hagiography: Life of St. Katherine, Life of St. Margaret | Authors: Early Christian Authors: Ambrose, Augustine of Hippo, Avitus of Vienne, Gerontius, Irenaeus, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Leo the Great, Origen, Symeon Metaphrastes, Tertullian; Medieval Authors: Margery Kempe, Martin Luther, Thomas Aquinas, Jacobus de Voragine, Wulfstan of York


General

I. Author Index

[Info] Adland, Sara R. Maria Goretti: An Icon of Virginity, An Icon of Silence, An Opportunity for Change. Senior Thesis, Haverford College, 2006.

[Info] Babb, Jeannie. Making Meaning of Sexual Violence against Women in Ancient Sacred Christian Literature. Master Thesis, University of the South, 2013.

[Info] Blanton, Virginia. »Ely's St. Æthelthryth: The Shrine's Enclosure of the Female Body as Symbol for the Inviolability of Monastic Space.« Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church. Virginia C. Raguin et al. Albany 2005: 47-73.

[Info] Bourdier, Juliette. »Travels Through the Dark Realms of Medieval Clerical Fantasies: Sex And Erotica in the Infernal Testimony.« Comitatus 48 (2017): 21-48.

[Info] Caldwell, John M. Religion and Sexual Violence in Late Greco-Roman Antiquity. Ph.D. Thesis, Syracuse University, 2003.

[Info] Groff, Elisa. »Sexual Violence in the Female Martyrdoms of the Sixth-Century Byzantine East: Febronia and Mahya.« Revisiting Rape in Antiquity: Sexualised Violence in Greek and Roman Worlds. Edited by Susan Deacy et al. London 2023: 183-199.

[Info] Innes-Parker, Catherine. »Sexual Violence and the Female Reader: Symbolic "Rape" in the Saints' Lives of the Katherine Group.« Women’s Studies 24 (1995): 205-217.

[Info] Jaeger, C. Stephen. »The loves of Christina of Markyate.« Christina of Markyate. A twelfth-century holy woman. Edited by Samuel Fanous et al. London 2005: 99-115.

[Info] MacDonald Morgan, Leslie J. »From Saints to Playboys: Sexual Violence against Women in the Christian Hagiographic Tradition.« Historical Papers: Canadian Society of Church History (1987): 33-43.

[Info] Papavarnavas, Christodoulos. Gefängnis als Schwellenraum in der byzantinischen Hagiographie: Eine literarische Untersuchung der Märtyrerakten in früh- und mittelbyzantinischer Zeit. Dissertation, Universität Wien, 2018.

[Info] Papavarnavas, Christodoulos. Gefängnis als Schwellenraum in der byzantinischen Hagiographie: Eine Untersuchung früh- und mittelbyzantinischer Märtyrerakten. Berlin 2021.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Bautch, Kelley N.C. »Seduction or Rape? Examining the Fate of the Angels’ Wives.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Washington, D.C. 2006.

[Info] Brooten, Bernadette. »Analyzing Slavery in Early Christian Canons Can Help to Dismantle Racialized Rape Culture.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Antonio 2016.

[Info] Claassen-Luttner, J. Cayenne. »Pure and Violated Female Bodies: Martyrdom Images, Pornography, and Imitation.« Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. San Diego 2007.

[Info] Colgan, Emily. »Let Him Romance You: Rape Culture and Gender Violence in Evangelical Christian Self-Help Literature.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego 2019.

[Info] Collins-Elliott, Jennifer. »“Violated by the Violence of the Enemy”: Augustine and Pope Leo I on the Changing Bodies and Identities of Raped Virgins.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Atlanta 2010.

[Info] Collins-Elliott, Jennifer. »“Jesus is Jealous”: The Use of Dinah in the Instruction of Virgins in Early Christian Literature.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Francisco 2011.

[Info] Franc, Catherine. »The Rejected Suitor and Rape in Hagiography: The Unusual Case of Thecla.« The International Medieval Congress. Leeds 2001.

[Info] Lambert, Tonya. »Puritans' Perceptions of Sexual Aggression.« Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. San Antonio 2002.

[Info] MacDonald Morgan, Leslie J. »'From Saints to Playboys': Images of Women in the Early Christian Hagiographic Tradition.« Canadian Society of Church History 1987 Annual Meeting. Hamilton 1987.

[Info] Stanton, Robert. »Marriage, Rape, and Rapture in The Life of Christina of Markyate33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1998.

[Info] Stergiou, Gianna. »Temptation Is Defeated Only by Force: The Case of the Female Figures in the Stories of Early Christian Ascetics.« Ancient Rape Cultures: Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian: International Conference Rome 2022.



Islam

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Sacred Texts: Qur'an



Judaism

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Sacred Texts: Hebrew Bible | Apocrypha: Books of the Maccabees | Rabbinic Literature: Talmud



Mormonism

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Sacred Texts: Book of Mormon