Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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TITLE INFORMATION

Author: Robert J. Blanch

Title: 'Al was this land fulfild of fayerye'

Subtitle: The Thematic Employment of Force, Willfulness, and Legal Conventions in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale

Journal: Studia Neophilologica

Volume: 57

Issue: 1

Year: 1985 (Published online: July 21, 2008)

Pages: 41-51

pISSN: 0039-3274 - Find a Library: WorldCat

Language: English

Keywords: Medieval History: 14th Century | European History: English History | Types: Rape; Representations: Literary Texts / Geoffrey Chaucer



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Abstract: »The Wife's portrayal of the rape, the judgment, and punishment of the knight reflect wish fulfillment, legal anachronism, and the inversion of the natural order of legitimate authority, though the tale ends in "true freedom and order."« (Source: Chaucer Bibliography Online)

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