From devotional literature to political narratives, medieval texts propose that sexual violence victims have privileged moral, ethical, and spiritual insight. This book explores these discourses of survival in a wide range of medieval English texts, including letters of spiritual advice, legal cases, romances, and legendary histories.
From devotional literature to political narratives, medieval texts propose that sexual violence victims have privileged moral, ethical, and spiritual insight. This book explores these discourses of survival in a wide range of medieval English texts, including letters of spiritual advice, legal cases, romances, and legendary histories.
In The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature, Suzanne M. Edwards explores representations of outliving rape in English saints lives, anchoritic texts, romances, and legal statutes from the eleventh through fifteenth centuries. & This book is valuable for medieval scholars, feminist scholars, and academics and activists who seek to combat sexual violence, as Afterlives provides important insight into theoretical conversations about gendered subjectivity, survival, and agency. (Carissa M. Harris, Modern Philology, Vol. 115 (3lc!
![The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature [Hardcover]](/itemImage/2/0/1/1/2_303575.jpg "The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature [Hardcover] xxx")