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: 10012
Author(s): Ho, Cynthia.
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Title : Framed progeny: the medieval descendents of Shaharizad [The article studies three medieval retellings of the Shaharizad story, showing that, in each example, the son speaks out against his wicked, story-telling stepmother. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Medieval Perspectives , 7., ( 1992):  Pages 91 - 107.
Year of Publication: 1992.