Invisible Woman: Rape as a Chivalric Necessity in Medieval Romance

Author / Editor
Vines, Amy N.

Title
Invisible Woman: Rape as a Chivalric Necessity in Medieval Romance

Published
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds. Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 161-80.

Description
Discusses the perception of sexual violence in medieval literature, using WBT and "Perceval" by Purcelle de Lis as primary case studies, and describes the medieval misconception that equates sexual assault with heroism.

Alternative Title
Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale