This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in conn

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term “literature” as we know it today did not appear until the ve

An analysis of the cultural and social functions of law, legal processes and legal rituals in late medieval northern France. It interprets the various influence