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Kathryn Gravdal.
Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law.
Published Philadelphia: Pennsylvania U.P., 1991.
Series: New Cultural Studies.
ISBN 0812282477.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
157x233x19mm.
Page count: x, 195pp.
Main language: English; quotations from other languages given with a following translation.
Overall condition good: this copy has no dustjacket; some mild wear to the boards and spine, especially at the edges and corners; a little foxing to the page tops; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £20.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback $24.95/£16.50]
Weight without packaging: 518g.

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Contents: Intro. — archaeology of rape in medieval literature & law; Plotting rape in female saints’ lives; Poetics of rape law — Chrétien’s Arthurian romance; Feudal law on trial in Roman de Renart; Sexual violence & social class in the pastourelle; Complicity of law & literature.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes

See also | Literature | History of law | Women’s studies |
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