Sexual Violence and Rape in the Middle Ages : : A Critical Discourse in Premodern German and European Literature / / Albrecht Classen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Classen, Albrecht,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Medieval historians and literary scholars have not ignored the topic of sexual violence and rape, but the primary focus has regularly rested on English, French, or Italian documents. Here we have the first book-length study that investigates the treatment of sexual crimes in medieval and early moder...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Female Suffering and Rape in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec
• Chapter 2 The Nibelungenlied — a Male Poet Reveals His Fear of Women Violence, Rape, and Political Machinations in the Heroic World
• Chapter 3 Date Rape, or The Breaking of a Contract? The Problematic Case of Mauritius von Craûn. Modern Legal Issues in a Medieval Context
• Chapter 4 Rape in Medieval Romance, with a Focus on Heinrich von dem Türlin’s Diu Crône
• Chapter 5 Rape in Medieval Latin and Middle High German Poetry: Walther von der Vogelweide and the Carmina Burana
• Chapter 6 Rape in Late Medieval Mæren
• Chapter 7 Rape in the World of the Peasant Class in the Late Middle Ages Heinrich Wittenwiler’s Ring
• Chapter 8 Apollonius of Tyre, Mai und Beaflor, and Other Late Medieval Narratives. The Suffering of Young Women Within Their Families
• Chapter 9 Violence against Women in Late Medieval Popular Song Poetry and Heroic Epic Songs
• Chapter 10 The Critical Treatment of Rape in Sixteenth Century Schwänke Literature: The Case of Hans Wilhelm Kirchhoff’s Wendunmuth
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index