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: 2788
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Title : Opening the Secret: Marriage, Narration, and Nascent Subjectivity in Middle English Romance [impact of marriage in romances not only in terms of the love relationship and the individual but also the narrative; romances studied are King Horn, Syr Launfal, and the Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell].
Source: Philological Quarterly , 76., 2 (Spring 1997):  Pages 133 - 157.
Year of Publication: 1997.