Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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First published: October 1, 2025 - Last updated: October 1, 2025

TITLE INFORMATION

Editor: Kathy Cawsey

Title: Sexualized and Gendered Violence in the Middle Ages

Subtitle: -

Place: Toronto

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Year: 2025

Pages: 139pp.

Series: Florilegium 38 (Special Issue)

pISSN: 0709-5201 - Find a Library: WorldCat | eISSN: 2369-7180 - Find a Library: WorldCat

Language: English

Keywords: Medieval History | European History | Types: Sexual Assault



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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Editor: Kathy Cawsey, Department of English, Dalhousie University

Contents:
  Florilegium's Special Issue on Sexualized and Gendered Violence in the Middle Ages
Kathy Cawsey (p. 1)
  The Power of Patient Kingship: Supernatural Abduction in Sir Orfeo and the Third Branch of the Mabinogi
Ruth Wehlau (p. 4)
  "Grab 'em by the Relics": The Elision of Consent and Selling Salvation with Female Virgin Martyrs Post-Sanctification
Amy N. Vines (p. 16)
  Rereading Medieval Cases of Raptus:: Group Rape and Homosociality in England
Mariah Cooper (p. 31)
  Philomela's Cloth: Reading Authority Back into a Survivor's Account
Daniel Armenti (p. 58)
  The Grammar of Rape in Chaucer and Gower
Kathy Cawsey (p. 72)
  Blaming the Victim: Stalking and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
Dorrel Thomas Hanks Jr. (p. 89)
  Raptus, Ravishment, and "Self-Divorce": The Heterotopic Space of Malory's Morgan le Fay
Lindsay Church (p. 102)
  Judith, Éowyn, and the Alloying Effects of Sexualized Violence
Gavin Foster (p. 115)
  Misogyny and the BBC: Alisoun's treatment in Chaucer's The Miller's Tale and the BBC's modern adaptation
Drew Maxwell (p. 128)

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