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  • 1 ‘Ar ye a knyght and ar no lovear?’ Men Who Resist Love
  • 2 ‘But of love to lere’: The Proud Lady in Love
  • 3 ‘Ne feolle hit þe of cunde / To spuse beo me bunde’: Resisting Mésalliance
  • 4 ‘What wonder is it thogh she wepte’? Hierarchies of Desire, Race, and Empathy
  • 5 ‘What deyntee sholde a man han in his lyf / For to go love another mannes wyf’? Resisting Adultery, Resisting Rape Culture
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© Hannah Piercy 2023
Some rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, any part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording or otherwise)
The right of Hannah Piercy to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
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Published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation
First published 2023
D. S. Brewer, Cambridge
ISBN 978 1 84384 672 7 paperback
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Cover: Blancandin kisses l’Orgueilleuse d’Amour against her will: Blancandin ou l’Orgueilleuse d’Amour, 1450–74, Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 3438, fol. 16v. Reproduced with kind permission from the ÖNB. Design: Toni Michelle

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Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance
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    • Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance
    • Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance
    • Studies in Medieval Romance
    • Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance
    • Copyright
    • Dedication
    • Acknowledgements
    • Abbreviations
    • Introduction
    • 1 ‘Ar ye a knyght and ar no lovear?’ Men Who Resist Love
    • 2 ‘But of love to lere’: The Proud Lady in Love
    • 3 ‘Ne feolle hit þe of cunde / To spuse beo me bunde’: Resisting Mésalliance
    • 4 ‘What wonder is it thogh she wepte’? Hierarchies of Desire, Race, and Empathy
    • 5 ‘What deyntee sholde a man han in his lyf / For to go love another mannes wyf’? Resisting Adultery, Resisting Rape Culture
    • Conclusion: The Ends of Romance
    • Bibliography
    • Volumes Already Published

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Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance
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This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire.

Medieval romance is usually considered a genre that celebrates love, desire, and sexuality within marriage. However, moments of resistance within it offer a point of tension, where normative scripts and expectations are exposed and opened up to challenge.

This book explores such resistance as a widespread motif in the genre, tracing the subversive possibilities it presents, and through them uncovering how romance constitutes particular kinds of love as desirable, shaped by intersecting factors, including gender, status, race, religion, and morality. Drawing upon contemporary work on consent, the politics of desire, and asexuality, it examines how resistance is often transformed into acceptance, through consensual negotiation or coercive force: the romances discussed here demonstrate that a certain level of force, pressure, and persuasion is accepted as a means of forming relationships within the genre, but this reliance on coercion reveals the effort to which romances must go to uphold normative structures of desire. Considering a variety of works, from Marie de France's twelfth-century Guigemar to Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, Geoffrey Chaucer's Franklin's Tale to William Caxton's fifteenth-century prose romances, this book argues that romance teaches its readers what and whom to desire, as well as how to behave when negotiating their desires, and explores the wider implications for understanding consent, gender, and desire in medieval England.

This book is available as Open Access under the Creative-Commons License CC-BY-NC-ND
Author
Hannah Piercy
PublisherD.S.Brewer
Print publication date Nov, 2023
Print ISBN 9781843846727
EISBN 9781805431312

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