The Unwilling Wife: Marital Rape in the "Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Skalak, Chelsea.

Title
The Unwilling Wife: Marital Rape in the "Canterbury Tales."

Published
Chaucer Review 55, no. 2 (2020): 119-46.

Description
Examines marital rape across CT, acknowledging that, while marital rape was impossible in medieval English law, it was a topic discussed and handled throughout CT. Gives particular attention to MerT, SNT, MkT, WBPT, and ShpT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Merchant and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale
Monk and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Shipman and His Tale