'My Sacrifice with Thy Blood': Violence, Discourse, and Subjectivity in the Representation of Children in Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Kline, Daniel Thomas.

Title
'My Sacrifice with Thy Blood': Violence, Discourse, and Subjectivity in the Representation of Children in Middle English Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3125A.

Description
Works such as Pearl, PhyT, PrT, and Lydgate's Siege of Thebes present children as transgressive social agents whom society represses through ill treatment to stabilize traditional hierarchies.

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.