Author: Grace Delmolino, Department of French and Italian, University of California, Davis

Abstract: »In Chapter 8, ‘Consent Beyond Language: Disability, Ambiguity, and the Sex Lives of Chickens and Nuns in Decameron 3.1’, Grace Delmolino examines deception, pleasure, and non-verbal consent in Boccaccio’s tale of Masetto da Lamporecchio and his sexual involvement with nine nuns. This chapter explores how non-verbal communication can convey consent and pleasure, and what kinds of deception invalidate consent. Delmolino then examines the implications of the equivalence Masetto and Boccaccio draw between the sex lives of humans and those of domesticated animals, especially given that the world of animal ‘sex’ is full of what looks very much like coercion and force.« (Source: Bonsall, Jane, and Hannah Piercy. »Introduction: Why Reconsider Medieval Consent and Coercion? Why Now?« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 32)

Contents:

	The Rooster Proverb: Misogyny and University Culture in Vat. Lat. 1383 (p. 167)
	Pacts of the Body: Disability and the Inner Worlds of Desire in Decameron 3.1 and the Liber Extra (p. 172)

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