Chapter Six. Domestic Violence in Medieval and Early-Modern German, French, Italian, and English Literature (Marie de France, Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer)

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter One. Violence to Women, Women’s Rights, and Their Defenders in Medieval German Literature 37
5. Chapter Two. Women Speak up at the Medieval Court: Gender Roles and Public Influence in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec and Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan and Isolde 69
6. Chapter Three. Women’s Secular and Spiritual Power in the Middle Ages. Two Case Studies: Hildegard von Bingen and Marie de France 105
7. Chapter Four. Gender Crossing, Spiritual Transgression, and the Epistemological Experience of the Divine in Mystical Discourse: Hildegard von Bingen 135
8. Chapter Five. The Winsbeckin – Female Discourse or Male Projection? New Questions to a Middle High German Gendered Didactic Text in Comparison with Christine de Pizan. What do we make out of a female voice within a male dominated textual genre? 159
9. Chapter Six. Domestic Violence in Medieval and Early-Modern German, French, Italian, and English Literature (Marie de France, Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer) 187
10. Chapter Seven. Reading, Listening, and Writing Communities in Late Medieval Women's Dominican Convents. The Mystical Drive Toward the Word. The Testimony of the Sisterbooks 231
11. Chapter Eight. Margery Kempe as a Writer: A Woman's Voice in the Mystical and Literary Discourse 271
12. Chapter Nine. Helene Kottanner: A Fifteenth-Century Eye-Witness Turned Author. The Earliest Medieval Memoirs by a German Woman Writer 309
13. Chapter Ten. Sixteenth-Century Cookbooks, Artes Literature, and Female Voices: Anna Weckerin (Keller) and Sabina Welser 339
14. Conclusion 367
15. Bibliography 387
16. Index 449