...Laura Levine Toward the end of the 1628 pamphlet A Briefe Description of the Notorious Life of Iohn Lambe , the pamphleteer describes the violence a crowd inflicts on John Lambe, a cunning man who dabbled in the dark arts. This violence, ultimately fatal, seems to be a response to Lambe's rape...

... about rape and resistance. The pastourelles closely echo the language of courtly love lyrics and thus function as a critique of courtly ideology, for they expose its violent denial of women's erotic subjectivity. Some pastourelles feature antirape pedagogical methods familiar to modern educators...

... is clearly vulnerable, as Monika Otter finds. In dis- cussing a symbolic rape of the saint’s shrine, Otter examines the monks’ relation to a female “communal body,” suggesting that the female body enclosed within a male house sets up a sexualized tension between the monks and their female patron, one...

... subjected to systematic rape by the men of the forest. At the end of the romance, Gallafur proves himself a fitting heir for Perceforest by com- pleting what his great-­uncle started, purging the forest of the spirits of these same enchanters and once again making the wilderness safe for knights...

... knowledge of the “old daunce” (476), mentioned in the General Prologue, as the ethnographic tableaux of the dance of the “elf-queene, with hir joly com- paignye” (860) in the tale. A rape sets her tale in juridical motion, just as a legal accusation had set her dream...

... with their families until marriage; others left home to lodge elsewhere; quite a few migrated from villages to cities. Not all these women remained virgins — some worked as prostitutes; some lost their virginity through rape; some were common- law wives of priests or other men; some took lovers they hoped...

... in 1475 to dismiss charges of the rape and abduction of Maria van der Hoeven, categorized in the petition as an actress and for- mer prostitute. Apart from Jan van Musene, the comfortable burgher who brought charges against Cricke and his companions, none of the subjects named in the pardon...

... toward giants (at least, male giants) is that they are to be killed, and the only behavior that they ever manifest is savage, brutal, and utterly antithetical to civilization: incest, cannibalism, rape, murder. Arthur kills at least two giants as a young man, Retho and the Giant of Mont-St-Michel...

... their access to concubines and prostitutes and assured lack of punishment for the rape of lower-status females or female captives, as Hrotsvit’s stories amply illustrate.11 The practice of celibacy was astutely exploited by aristocrats in negotiations of power with the church. In forging alliances...

... almost raping her. In the process, he sets himself against his friend Belvile, becoming indistinguishable from the foreign troops who tried to rape her in Pamplona. Other confusions follow in which Belvile stands in for Antonio during the duel with Pedro (4.1.105 –  46), the Englishmen...

....28 Yet while this figure may hold physical violence at bay, it unavoidably invokes the metamorpho- sis myth of bestialization as a means to rape. Pasquier’s puce is haunted by classical rape narratives through a series of negations: he does not desire to be Zeus, assuming the appearance of Leda’s...

... text of a liturgical psalter with facing-page English translation by Anderson, with analysis by Parenti situating the psalter in its liturgical context.] Baechle, Sarah, Carissa M. Harris, and Elizaveta Strakhov, eds. Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature: With an Edition...

... depends on questions of agency. Was it rape? Or was it consen- sual, since the emperor’s heir was the instrument of their coming there? The crusaders themselves were well aware of the foundational tradition that the would-be emperor of Constantinople must marry the city; one might almost say...

..., and there is no hope of supplying missing gaps of knowledge. A full set of documents illu- minate another case examined by the authors, that of a rape and abduction, which opens the door for microanalysis. Mining the array of sources on this case, Arnade and Colwill are able to provide rich insights that gender...

..., Laura Varnam, and the anonymous JMEMS reviewer. Without their hard work and intellectual grace, this essay would not exist. 1 The tortures mounted on female saints have been read as an extension of violent sex- ual desire, assault, or rape by their torturers. This is often understood as participat- ing...

... the next room. When the judge learns that the woman is crying because his nephew had intended to rape her, he orders his knights to hang the nephew for his trespass, but the knights disobey the order.2 Later, Herkenbald calls his nephew to his bedside. As the judge holds his nephew with one hand...

..., this passage closely resem- bles Sin s birthing of Death in Paradise Lost, perhaps bearing the closest sim- ilarity to Paradise Lost of any passage in Order and Disorder. In an account scholars commonly consider a prefiguration of the horrors of fallen repro- duction, Satan rapes Sin (who springs from his own...

... as a queen or a harem. Colonies are thus construed as objects of conquest and possession. This desire finds its converse expression in fears of miscegenation through the rape of white women by male racial others, fears that underlie false accusations of rape against Aziz...

... of Rochester: The Poems and “Lucina’s Rape.” Edited by Keith Walker and Nicholas Fisher. Chichester, West Sus- sex: Wiley-­Blackwell, 2010. xxxiv, 260 pp.; 8 figs. $99.95. 230  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 41.1 / 2011 2. Reference Bauer, Susan Wise. The History of the Medieval...

... in Medieval Society. Woodbridge, Suf- folk: Boydell Press, 2000. xiii, 226 pp. $75.00. Robertson, Elizabeth, and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave, 2001. ix, 453 pp. $45.00. Ruff, Julius R. Violence in Early Modern...