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 Illustrations
	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Jane Bonsall and Hannah Piercy, Introduction: Why Reconsider Medieval Consent and Coercion? Why Now?
	Coercive Strategies and (Im)Possibilities of Resistance
	Carissa M. Harris, ‘Resistence Makyng’: Resisting Rape in Premodern England and Scotland
	Lucas Wood, ‘That love should be love’s recompense’: Courtly Seduction, Compulsory Compassion, and Coercive Desire in Alain Chartier’s La Belle Dame sans mercy
	Rowan Wilson, ‘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
	Basil Arnould Price, Suicide as Speech: The Antisocial Feminism of Svarfdæla saga
	Reframing Gendered Coercion: Men’s Experiences of Vulnerability
	Jane Bonsall and Hannah Piercy, Comparative Approaches to Men’s Experiences of Sexual Coercion: Reading across Multi-Text Manuscripts
	Bettina Bildhauer, Sexualised Violence by a Woman against a Boy: Upsetting the Binary Gender Hierarchy in Of the Seven Masters
	Emmet Taylor, Love Under Threat: Reconsidering the Experiences of Noísiu and Diarmaid
	Consent and the Boundaries of the Human
	Grace Delmolino, Consent Beyond Language: Disability, Ambiguity, and the Sex Lives of Chickens and Nuns in Decameron 3.1
	Maria Zygogianni, Her Garden: Consent and the hortus conclusus in The Knight’s Tale and The Isle of Ladies
	Alexander Wilson and Natalie Jayne Goodison, ‘Sa vesteüre ala saisir, Par tant la cuide retenir’: Clothing and Coercion in the Bathing Scenes of Medieval Romance
	Reinscribing Coercion, Rewriting Consent
	Mara Schmueckle, Writing Consent: Notaries and Gendered Narratives in Late Medieval Scotland
	Debadrita Saha, Women’s (Absent) Consent and (Culturally Sanctioned) Coercion in Medieval Bengali Literature: Chandimangal and SatiMayna
	Timi Sgouros, Shades of Coercion in Medieval Exempla: Adaptations of ‘The Nun who Saw the World’
	Caitlin G. Watt, ‘Thy Womb Will Avenge Thee’: Olympias, Revenge, and Consent in Medieval Alexander the Great Narratives
	Elizabeth Robertson, Afterword: Ambiguities of Consent and Forms of Resistance to Rape
	Bibliography

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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