| Contact + Contact Form 
 Search + Search Form 
 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: 
					Alphabetical Index: 
					Author Index: 
						A | 
						B | 
						C | 
						D | 
						E | 
						F | 
						G | 
						H | 
						I | 
						J | 
						K | 
						L | 
						M | 
						N | 
						O | 
						P | 
						Q | 
						R | 
						S | 
						T | 
						U | 
						V | 
						W | 
						X | 
						Y | 
						Z | 
						Unknown
				 
				First published: October 1, 2025 - Last updated: October 1, 2025
			TITLE INFORMATION 
			
			Author: Daniel Armenti
			
 Title: Philomela’s Cloth
 
 Subtitle: Reading Authority Back into a Survivor’s Account
 
 Journal: Florilegium
 
 Volume: 38: Sexualized and Gendered Violence in the Middle Ages (Edited by Kathy Cawsey)
 
 Issue: -
 
 Year: 2025 (2021) (Published online: August 14, 2025)
 
 Pages: 58-71
 
 pISSN: 0709-5201 - 
				Find a Library: WorldCat | 
			eISSN: 2369-7180 - 
				Find a Library: WorldCat
 
 Language: English
 
 Keywords: 
				Ancient History: 
					Roman History; 
				Medieval History: 
					12th Century, 
					13th Century, 
					14th Century | 
				European History: 
					English History, 
					French History | 
				Cases: 
					Mythological Victims / 
						Philomela; 
				Types: 
					Rape; 
				Representations: 
					Literary Texts / 
						Ovid
 
 FULL TEXT
 
			
			Links:
			- Project MUSE (Restricted Access)
 
 - University of Toronto Press (Restricted Access)
 
 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
			
			Author:
				Daniel Armenti, 
					Department of World Languages Literatures and Cultures, 
					High Point University - 
					Academia.edu
			
 Abstract: 
				»The presence of the cloth in the Philomela narrative offers the opportunity to restore Philomela’s authority along with her voice, stripped away from her by Tereus. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses and its many medieval reception texts, the account authored by Philomela is simultaneously inaccessible to the reader and authoritative within the narrative: its presence emphasizes the potential appropriation of her voice, just as it undermines the framing narrator’s authority in retelling her story. In reading authority back into the character, the reader resists their own complicity in her silencing.« 
				(Source: Florilegium)
 
 Wikipedia: 
				Ancient history: 
					Ancient Rome | 
				History of Europe: 
					History of England / 
						England in the Late Middle Ages | 
				History of Europe: 
					History of France / 
						France in the Middle Ages | 
				Literature: 
					Latin literature / 
						Ovid | 
				Literature: 
					Fiction about rape / 
						Metamorphoses | 
				Myth: 
					Classical mythology / 
						Philomela | 
				Sex and the law: 
					Rape / 
						History of rape
 |