Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 8080
Author(s): Drake, Graham N.
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Title : Not Safe Even in Their Own Castles: Reading Domestic Violence Against Children in Four Middle English Romances [The author argues that the physical abuse, danger in homes, abusive foster guardians, and forced marriages experienced by the children in these romances served to evoke pathos. Readers among the gentry and urban middle class were anxious about violence and insecurity but in these romances the children usually triumphed over extreme difficulties with a happy ending. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts.   Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price .   University Press of Florida, 2002.  Pages 139 - 163.
Year of Publication: 2002.

2. Record Number: 4028
Author(s): Menuge, No‘l James.
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Wards and Marriage in Romance and Law: A Question of Consent
Source: Young Medieval Women.   Edited by Katherine J. Lewis, Noel James Menuge, and Kim M. Phillips .   St. Martin's Press, 1999.  Pages 153 - 171.
Year of Publication: 1999.

3. Record Number: 2348
Author(s): Olsen, Alexandra H.
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Title : The Valkyrie Reflex in "Havelok the Dane"
Source: Old English Newsletter , 29., 3 (Spring 1996):
Year of Publication: 1996.