Author: Academia.edu

Abstract: »Concluding the section, Emmet Taylor in their chapter, ‘Love Under Threat: Reconsidering the Experiences of Noísiu and Diarmaid’, turns to two works of medieval Irish literature, Longes mac nUislenn (‘Exile of the Sons of Uisliu’) and Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne (‘Pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne’), which represent young men being forced into sexual relationships with the betrotheds of their social superiors. Taylor argues that both tales consider the coercion of these young men to be legitimate mitigating circumstances that enable them to be forgiven for betraying their superiors, while representing their superiors’ refusals to acknowledge that they were coerced as acts of profound villainy, thus suggesting an awareness that men could be sexually coerced by women in medieval Irish contexts.« (Source: 31)

Contents:

	Coercing Noísiu: Horse Ears, Sexual Inadequacy, and the Lethality of Shame (p. 149)
	Coercing Diarmaid: Gessi as a Death Threat (p. 154)
	Men as Victims in Medieval Ireland (p. 159)

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