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Abstract: »The parallels between human and more-than-human worlds are further explored by Maria Zygogianni in Chapter 9, ‘Her Garden: Consent and the hortus conclusus in The Knight’s Tale and The Isle of Ladies’. Zygogianni offers an ecofeminist reading of these two texts as parallel narratives of coercion in and through garden spaces, as Emelye and the Queen are coerced into marital submission, with their garden settings — environmental reflections of the women’s bodies — playing an integral role in creating the narrative framework of conquest-as-love-story.« (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:

	Women and Nature (p. 184)
	Conquest and Courtship (p. 188)
	Conclusion (p. 199)

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