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Legal medicine --- Rape. --- Rape --- -Rape --- -Assault, Criminal (Rape) --- Assault, Sexual --- Criminal assault (Rape) --- Nonconsensual sexual intercourse --- Sexual assault --- Offenses against the person --- Sex crimes --- Rapes --- Investigation --- Investigation. --- -Investigation --- Assault, Criminal (Rape) --- Criminal investigation --- Forced sexual intercourse --- Forced sexual penetration --- Penetration, Forced sexual --- Sexual intercourse, Forced --- Sexual intercourse, Nonconsensual --- Sexual penetration, Forced

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This book is a well-researched and moving account of how sexual assault on women has become a potent weapon in virtually all armed conflicts. Chapters giving historical and geographic perspectives describe how rape has been used throughout the ages and around the world. Case histories reveal the individual tragedies within the broad picture.

Rape --- Women in war. --- War crimes. --- Atrocities. --- Women --- Crimes against women --- Femicide --- Women victims of crime --- Military atrocities --- Cruelty --- War crimes --- Crime --- War --- Women's work in war --- Prevention of rape --- Assault, Criminal (Rape) --- Assault, Sexual --- Criminal assault (Rape) --- Nonconsensual sexual intercourse --- Sexual assault --- Offenses against the person --- Sex crimes --- History. --- Prevention. --- Crimes against. --- Women's work --- Forced sexual intercourse --- Forced sexual penetration --- Penetration, Forced sexual --- Sexual intercourse, Forced --- Sexual intercourse, Nonconsensual --- Sexual penetration, Forced

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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 in the context of shifting legal, theological and medical attitudes. The treatment of rape and ravishment is considered across a wide range of literary genres: hagiography, where female saints are repeatedly threatened with rape; legendary history, as in the stories of Lucretia and Helen; and romance, where acts of rape and ravishment challenge and shape chivalric order, and romance heroes are conceived through rape. Finally, the ways in which Malory and Chaucer write and rewrite rape and ravishment are examined. Dr CORINNE SAUNDERS is Lecturer in Medieval Studies, Department of English, University of Durham.

Christian hagiography --- Christian women saints --- English literature --- Rape in literature. --- Rape --- Romances, English --- Sex crimes in literature. --- Women and literature --- Women in literature. --- Women --- History --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Crimes against --- History and criticism --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Christian saints --- Women saints --- Assault, Criminal (Rape) --- Assault, Sexual --- Criminal assault (Rape) --- Nonconsensual sexual intercourse --- Sexual assault --- Offenses against the person --- Sex crimes --- Forced sexual intercourse --- Forced sexual penetration --- Penetration, Forced sexual --- Sexual intercourse, Forced --- Sexual intercourse, Nonconsensual --- Sexual penetration, Forced --- ENGLISH LITERATURE --- WOMEN AND LITERATURE --- CHRISTIAN WOMEN SAINTS --- ROMANCES --- MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1100-1500 --- ENGLAND --- Chaucer. --- Cultural tradition. --- Literature. --- Malory. --- Medieval England. --- Rape. --- Ravishment. --- Hagiography.