Editors:
- Jane Bonsall, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews - Academia.edu, ORCID

- Hannah Piercy, Department of English, Universität Bern (University of Bern) - Academia.edu

Contents:

	List of Contributors (p. 9)
	Acknowledgements (p. 13)
	Note on the Cover Image (p. 15)
	Introduction: Why Reconsider Medieval Consent and Coercion? Why Now? Jane Bonsall and Hannah Piercy (p. 17)
	Coercive Strategies and (Im)Possibilities of Resistance
	1. ‘Resistence Makyng’: Resisting Rape in Premodern England and Scotland Carissa M. Harris (p. 37)
	2. ‘That love should be love’s recompense’: Courtly Seduction, Compulsory Compassion, and Coercive Desire in Alain Chartier’s La Belle Dame sans mercy Lucas Wood (p. 55)
	3. ‘You do not get to consent to yourself, even if you might deserve the chance’: Nature’s Coercion and Transgender Volition in Le Roman de Silence Rowan Wilson (p. 73)
	4. Suicide as Speech: The Antisocial Feminism of Svarfdæla saga Basil Arnould Price (p. 93)
	Reframing Gendered Coercion: Men’s Experiences of Vulnerability
	5. Comparative Approaches to Men’s Experiences of Sexual Coercion: Reading across Multi-Text Manuscripts Jane Bonsall and Hannah Piercy (p. 111)
	6. Sexualised Violence by a Woman against a Boy: Upsetting the Binary Gender Hierarchy in Of the Seven Masters Bettina Bildhauer (p. 129)
	7. Love Under Threat: Reconsidering the Experiences of Noísiu and Diarmaid Emmet Taylor (p. 147)
	Consent and the Boundaries of the Human
	8. Consent Beyond Language: Disability, Ambiguity, and the Sex Lives of Chickens and Nuns in Decameron 3.1 Grace Delmolino (p. 165)
	9. Her Garden: Consent and the hortus conclusus in The Knight’s Tale and The Isle of Ladies Maria Zygogianni (p. 181)
	10. ‘Sa vesteüre ala saisir, Par tant la cuide retenir’: Clothing and Coercion in the Bathing Scenes of Medieval Romance Alexander Wilson and Natalie Jayne Goodison (p. 201)
	Reinscribing Coercion, Rewriting Consent
	11. Writing Consent: Notaries and Gendered Narratives in Late Medieval Scotland Mara Schmueckle (p. 219)
	12. Women’s (Absent) Consent and (Culturally Sanctioned) Coercion in Medieval Bengali Literature: Chandimangal and SatiMayna Debadrita Saha (p. 235)
	13. Shades of Coercion in Medieval Exempla: Adaptations of ‘The Nun who Saw the World’ Timi Sgouros (p. 255)
	14. ‘Thy Womb Will Avenge Thee’: Olympias, Revenge, and Consent in Medieval Alexander the Great Narratives Caitlin G. Watt (p. 271)
	Afterword: Ambiguities of Consent and Forms of Resistance to Rape Elizabeth Robertson (p. 289)
	Bibliography (p. 297)
	Index (p. 333)

Description: »This volume brings medieval and modern discourses of consent and coercion into dialogue, revealing the diversity and nuances of medieval understandings of sexual coercion, and the ways in which they underpin - or cast new light on - our contemporary consent culture.« (Source: Brepols Publishers)

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