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				First published: October 1, 2025 - Last updated: October 1, 2025
			TITLE INFORMATION 
			
			Author: Dorrel Thomas Hanks
			
 Title: Blaming the Victim
 
 Subtitle: Stalking and Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur
 
 Journal: Florilegium
 
 Volume: 38: Sexualized and Gendered Violence in the Middle Ages (Edited by Kathy Casey)
 
 Issue: -
 
 Year: 2025
 
 Pages: 89-101
 
 pISSN: 0709-5201 - 
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			eISSN: 2369-7180 - 
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 Language: English
 
 Keywords: 
				Medieval History: 
					15th Century | 
				European History | 
					English History | 
				Cases: 
					Fictional Victims and 
					Mythological Victims / 
							Elaine of Astolat, 
							Merlin, 
							Pelleas; 
				Cases: 
					Fictional Victims and 
					Mythological Victims / 
							Ettarde, 
							Lancelot, 
							Nynive; 
				Types: 
					Sexual Assault; 
				Representations: 
					Literary Texts / 
						Thomas Malory
 
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			Links:
			- Project MUSE (Restricted Access)
 
 - University of Toronto Press (Restricted Access)
 
 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
			
			Author: -
			
 Abstract: 
				»Examples of what we now call stalking comprise three important episodes in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur. The first is well-known: Merlin stalks Nynive, the Lady of the Lake, in pursuit of her maidenhead. Widely unrecognized as stalking is Pelleas's action in the later episode of Pelleas and Ettarde. The condemnation of Ettarde for her "crime" of rejecting Pelleas's attentions appears throughout Malory's account of the event, coming to a head in her magical murder by the same Lady of the Lake who refused (and interred) Merlin. The third stalking has not been recognized as stalking because it is the man who is being stalked—Elaine of Ascolat's stalking of Lancelot.« 
				(Source: Florilegium)
 
 Wikipedia: 
				History of Europe: 
					History of England / 
						England in the Late Middle Ages | 
				Literature: 
					English literature / 
						Thomas Malory | 
						Le Morte d'Arthur | 
				Literature: 
					Female characters in literature / 
						Elaine of Astolat | 
						Lady of the Lake | 
				Literature: 
					Male characters in literature / 
						Lancelot, 
						Merlin, 
						Pelleas | 
				Sex and the law: 
					Stalking
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