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Record Number:
7377
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Cannon , Christopher.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Chaucer and Rape: Uncertainty's Certainties
Source:
Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose. The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Pages 255 - 279.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Champain, Cecily, Possible Victim of Raptus
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet
Consent
Law
Rape in Literature
Raptus [Latin: Rape or Abduction, Either Forcible or Consensual, Sometimes with the Intention of Marriage]
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
The role Geoffrey Chaucer played in the "raptus" of Cecily Chaumpaigne can be specified, not through any history of terminology but, as this essay argues, through consideration of the grounds on which a particular act of sex can be described as nonconsensual, both now and in the Middle Ages. [Reproduced by permission of Palgrave].
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Christopher Cannon, in "Chaucer and Rape: Uncertainty's Certainties," pursues his important work on the most famous rape in medieval English literary studies, the charge of "raptus" from which Cecily Chaumpaigne releases Chaucer. In this essay Cannon comp
Author's Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2001.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0312236484