Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts

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Introduction, by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price Part One. Domestic Violence and the Law 1. Interpreting Silence: Domestic Violence in the King's Courts in East Anglia, 1422-1442, by Philippa Maddern 2. The Reasonable Laws of Domestic Violence in Late Medieval England, by Emma Hawkes Part Two. Fictional Histories: Domestic Violence and Literary/Legal Texts 3. Chaucer's Wife, the Law, and the Middle English Breton Lays, by Eve Salisbury 4. Taboo and Transgression in Gower's Appollonius of Tyre, by Georgiana Donavin 5. Reframing the Violence of the Father: Reverse Oedipal Fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of Law's, and Prioress's Tales, by Barrie Ruth Straus 6. Not Safe Even in Their Own Castles: Reading Domestic Violence Against Children in Four Middle English Romances, by Graham N. Drake 7. Domestic Violence in the Decameron, by Marilyn Mlgiel 8. Reading Riannon: The Problematics of Motherhood in Pwyll Pendeuic, by Christopher G. Nugent Part Three, Historical Fictions: Domestic Violence in Chronicle, Drama, Hagiography, and Illuminations 9. The Homicidal Women Stories in the Roman de Thebes, the Brut Chronicles, and Deschamps' Ballade 285, by Anna Roberts 10. Noah's Wife: The Shaming of the Trew, by Garrett P.J. Epp 11. Marriage, Socialization, and Domestic Violence in The Life of Christina of Markyate, by Robert Stanton 12. Imperial Violence and the Monstrous Mother: Cannibalism at the Stege of Jerusalem, by Merrall Llewelyn Price 13. The Feminized World and Divine Violence: Texts and Images of the Apocalypse, by Anne Laskaya

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