Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England

An exploration of the development of Middle English portrayals of rape and ravishment in the context of shifting legal, theological and medical attitudes. This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the Renaissance. Tracing debate and dialogue across intellectual and literary discourses, Corinne Saunders places Middle English literary portrayals of rape and ravishment