ABOUT THIS BOOK <p >Teachers of medieval literature help students bridge thetemporal, contextual, and linguistic gulfs between the Middle Ages and thetwenty-first century. When episodes involving rape are thrown into the mix,that task becomes even more difficult. Students and teachers bring a variety ofexperiences to the classroom. This volume proposes ways educators can helpstudents navigate the divide between in- and out-of-class experiences and offerssuggestions for classroom activities and assignments for a range of medievaltexts, as well as insight into the concerns of students in various settings.</p>
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<div><div>1. Introduction: Teaching Rape: Challenges in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom by Alison Gulley</div><div>2. Medieval Saints and Misogynist Times: Transhistorical Perspectives on Sexual Violence in the Undergraduate Classroom by Suzanne Edwards</div><div>3. Teaching Medieval Rape Narrative Across Genre: Insights From Victimology by Christina DiGangi and Wendy Perkins</div><div>4. Bringing the Bystander into the Humanities Classroom: Reading Ancient, Patristic, and Medieval Texts on the Continuum of Violence by Elizabeth Hubble</div><div>5. From Bystander to Upstander: Reading the <i>Nibelungenlied</i> to Resist Rape Culture by Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand</div><div>6. Speech, Silence, and Teaching Chaucer's Rapes by Tison Pugh</div><div>7. Classroom PSA: Values, Law, and Ethics in "The Reeve's Tale" by Emily Houlik-Ritchey</div><div>8. "How do we know he really raped her?": Addressing Student Resistance to the "Wife of Bath's Tale" with the BBC's <i>Canterbury Tales</i> by Alison Gulley</div><div>9. Teaching the False Accusation Motif in <i>Lanval</i> by Elizabeth Harper</div><div>10. Sexual Compulsion and Sexual Violence in the Lais of Marie de France by Misty Urban</div><div>11. Troubadour Lyric, Fin'amors, and Rape Culture by Daniel E. O’Sullivan</div><div>12. The Knight Coerced: Two Cases of Raped Men in Chivalric Romance by David Grubbs</div><div>13. Teaching Rape to the He-Man Woman Hater's Club: Chrétien de Troyes at a Military School by Alan Baragona</div><div>14. Rape, Identity, and Redemption: Teaching "Sir Gowther" in the Community College Classroom by William H. Smith</div></div>
<p >Teachers of medieval literature help students bridge thetemporal, contextual, and linguistic gulfs between the Middle Ages and thetwenty-first century. When episodes involving rape are thrown into the mix,that task becomes even more difficult. Students and teachers bring a variety ofexperiences to the classroom. This volume proposes ways educators can helpstudents navigate the divide between in- and out-of-class experiences and offerssuggestions for classroom activities and assignments for a range of medievaltexts, as well as insight into the concerns of students in various settings.</p>
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<div><div>1. Introduction: Teaching Rape: Challenges in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom by Alison Gulley</div><div>2. Medieval Saints and Misogynist Times: Transhistorical Perspectives on Sexual Violence in the Undergraduate Classroom by Suzanne Edwards</div><div>3. Teaching Medieval Rape Narrative Across Genre: Insights From Victimology by Christina DiGangi and Wendy Perkins</div><div>4. Bringing the Bystander into the Humanities Classroom: Reading Ancient, Patristic, and Medieval Texts on the Continuum of Violence by Elizabeth Hubble</div><div>5. From Bystander to Upstander: Reading the <i>Nibelungenlied</i> to Resist Rape Culture by Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand</div><div>6. Speech, Silence, and Teaching Chaucer's Rapes by Tison Pugh</div><div>7. Classroom PSA: Values, Law, and Ethics in "The Reeve's Tale" by Emily Houlik-Ritchey</div><div>8. "How do we know he really raped her?": Addressing Student Resistance to the "Wife of Bath's Tale" with the BBC's <i>Canterbury Tales</i> by Alison Gulley</div><div>9. Teaching the False Accusation Motif in <i>Lanval</i> by Elizabeth Harper</div><div>10. Sexual Compulsion and Sexual Violence in the Lais of Marie de France by Misty Urban</div><div>11. Troubadour Lyric, Fin'amors, and Rape Culture by Daniel E. O’Sullivan</div><div>12. The Knight Coerced: Two Cases of Raped Men in Chivalric Romance by David Grubbs</div><div>13. Teaching Rape to the He-Man Woman Hater's Club: Chrétien de Troyes at a Military School by Alan Baragona</div><div>14. Rape, Identity, and Redemption: Teaching "Sir Gowther" in the Community College Classroom by William H. Smith</div></div>