Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Female Suffering and Rape in Hartmann von Aue's Erec -- Chapter 2 The Nibelungenlied - a Male Poet Reveals His Fear of Women Violence, Rape, and Political Machinations in the Heroic World -- Chapter 3 Date Rape, or The Breaking of a Contract? The Problematic Case of Mauritius von Craûn. Modern Legal Issues in a Medieval Context -- Chapter 4 Rape in Medieval Romance, with a Focus on Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Crône -- Chapter 5 Rape in Medieval Latin and Middle High German Poetry: Walther von der Vogelweide and the Carmina Burana -- Chapter 6 Rape in Late Medieval Mæren -- Chapter 7 Rape in the World of the Peasant Class in the Late Middle Ages Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring -- Chapter 8 Apollonius of Tyre, Mai und Beaflor, and Other Late Medieval Narratives. The Suffering of Young Women Within Their Families -- Chapter 9 Violence against Women in Late Medieval Popular Song Poetry and Heroic Epic Songs -- Chapter 10 The Critical Treatment of Rape in Sixteenth Century Schwänke Literature: The Case of Hans Wilhelm Kirchhoff's Wendunmuth -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

The aim of this English-language series on medieval studies is to establish a methodical, discerning connection between text analysis and cultural history.  The series addresses the fundamental cultural themes of the medieval world from the perspective of literary studies and the humanities. These fundamental themes are the culture-formative conceptualizations, world views, social structures and everyday conditions of medieval life, namely, childhood and old age, sexuality, religion, medicine, rituals, work, poverty and wealth, superstition, earth and cosmos, city and country, war, emotions, communication, travel etc. Fundamentals of Medieval Culture  pursues important current discussions in the field and provides a forum for interdisciplinary medieval research. The series is open to anthologies as well as monographs. The aim of the series is to present compendium-like works on the central topics of medieval cultural history that provide a sound overview of a limited subject area from the perspective of various disciplines. On the whole, the series thus presents an encyclopedia of medieval literary and cultural history and its main topics.

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