Reading

Paul Sturtevant, “Was Sexual Abuse Normal in the Middle Ages?”, The Public Medievalist, (May 28, 2015) https://www.publicmedievalist.com/got-rape-and-middle-ages

Kaufman and Sturtevant, Chapter 5 “Knights in Shining Armor and Damsels in Distress”

Michaela Baca, “Bad Kids: Incestuous Fantasy and Phenomenon in A Song of Fire and Ice, Essays in Medieval Studies 32 (2017): 83-88. http://prxy.lib.unbc.ca/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=129879817&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Game of Thrones Episodes

Episodes 38-45

Focus on Episode 46 “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken” (NOTE: This episode features a rape scene).

Podcast

I interview Dr. Sara McDougall about representations of sexual violence and incest on Game of Thrones.

Podcast episode available here Episode 3: Sexual Violence and Incest

Additional readings:

Lucia Akkard, “A Medieval #MeToo”, The Public Medievalist (October 28, 2018) https://www.publicmedievalist.com/metoo/

Anna Waymack, “Teaching de raptu meo: Chaucer, Chaumpaigne, and Consent in the Classroom”, Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 53.1 (2017): 150-175.

Hiram Kumper, “Learned men and skilful matrons: medieval expertise and the forensics of rape in the Middle Ages”, Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages ed. Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler (Brill, 2014): 88-108.

Caroline Dunn, “The language of ravishment in medieval England”, Speculum 86.1 (2011): 79-116. 

Christof Rolker, “Kings, Bishops, and incest: extension and subversion of the ecclesiastical marriage jurisdiction around 1100”, Studies in Church History 43 (2007): 159-168.