The History of Rape: A Bibliography
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Dübeck, Inger. "Voldtægtsforbrydelsen i retshistorisk belysning." Historisk tidsskrift 103 (2003): pp. 53-81.

Loughlin, Marie H. Hymeneutics: interpreting virginity on the early modern stage. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1997.

Simkin, Stevie. Early modern tragedy and the cinema of violence. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Van Isterdael, H. "Arbeid en seksualiteit: een onderzoek naar de seksuele agressie op het vrouwelijk dienstpersoneel in het Ancien Régime." Arbeid in veelvoud: een huldeboek aangeboden aan Prof. Dr. J. Craeybeckx en Prof. Dr. E. Scholliers van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Edited by Els Witte and J. Hannes. Brussels: VUB-Press, 1988: pp. 113-122.

Wettlaufer, Jörg. Das Herrenrecht der ersten Nacht: Hochzeit, Herrschaft und Heiratzins im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit. Frankfurt/Main and New York: Campus, 1999.
 

Americas: [Link]
Wood, Stephanie. "Sexual violation in the conquest of the Americas." Sex and sexuality in early America. Edited by Merril D. Smith. New York: New York University Press, 1998: pp. 9-34.


Egypt: [Link]
Sonbol, Amira El Azhary. "Law and gender violence in Ottoman and modern Egypt." Women, the family and divorce laws in Islamic history. Edited by Amira El Azhary Sonbol. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Sonbol, Amira El Azhary. "Rape and law in Ottoman and modern Egypt." Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern women in the early modern era. Edited by Madeline C. Zilfi. Leiden et al.: Brill, 1997: pp. 214-231.


England: [Link]
Adams, Michael. "Specular rape: reflections on early modern reflections of the present day." Centennial review 41 (1997): pp. 217-250.

Baines, Barbara J. Representing rape in the English early modern period. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

Camino, Mercedes M. "The stage am I": raping Lucrece in early modern England. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1995.

Catty, Jocelyn. Writing rape, writing women in early modern England: unbridled speech. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.

Geis, G. "Lord Hale, witches, and rape." British journal of law and society 5 (1978): pp. 26-44.

Ingram, Martin. "Child sexual abuse in early modern England." Negotiating power in early modern society: order, hierarchy and subordination in Britain and Ireland. Edited by Michael J. Braddick and John Walter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001: pp. 63-84 and 257-262.

Kietzman, Mary Jo. ""What is Hecuba to him or (s)he to Hecuba?": Lucrece's complaint and Shakespearean poetic agency." Modern philology 97 (1999): pp. 21-45.

La Fontane, J. "Concepts of evil, witchcraft and the sexual abuse of children in modern England." Etnofoor 5 (1992): pp. 6-20.

McLachlan, Hugh V., and J.K. Swales. "Lord Hale, witches, and rape: a comment." British journal of law and society 5 (1978): pp. 251-261.

Miller, Nancy W. Rape and the rhetoric of female chastity in English Renaissance literature. Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1996.

Ritscher, Lee A. The semiotics of rape in Renaissance English literature. Ann Arbor: ProQuest, 2005.

Walker, Garthine. "Rereading rape and sexual violence in early modern England." Gender and history 10 (1998): pp. 1-25.

Williams, Carolyn D. "'Silence, like a Lucrece knife': Shakespeare and the meanings of rape." Yearbook of English studies 23 (1993): pp. 93-110.


Europe: [Link]
Martin, A. Lynn. Alcohol, sex, and gender in late medieval and early modern Europe. Basingstoke, 2001.

Robertson, Elizabeth A., and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Robertson, Elizabeth, and Christine M. Rose. "Introduction: representing rape in medieval and early modern literature." Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature. Edited by Elizabeth A. Robertson and Christine M. Rose. New York: Palgrave, 2001: pp. 1-17.


France: [Link]
Flandrin, J.L. "Repression and change in the sexual life of young people in medieval and early modern times." Journal of family history 2 (1977): pp. 196-210.


Italy: [Link]
Adelman, Howard E. "Servants and sexuality: seduction, surrogacy, and rape: some observations concerning class, gender, and race in early modern Italian Jewish families." Gender and judaism: the transformation of tradition. Edited by Tamar M. Rudavsky. New York: New York University Press, 1995: pp. 81-97.

Camaiani, Pier G. "Un patriziato di fronte alla Rivoluzione Francese: la repubblica oligarchica di Lucca dal 1789 al 1799." Rassegna storica Toscana 30 (1984): pp. 61-103.

di Simplicio, Oscar. "La criminalita a Siena (1561-1808): problemi di recerca." Quaderni storici 17 (1982): pp. 242-264.

di Simplicio, Oscar. "Violenza maritale e violenza sessuale nello stato senese di antico regime." Emarginazione, criminalita e devianza in Italia fra '600 e '900: problemi e indicazioni di ricerca. Edited by Alessandro Pastore and Paolo Sorcinelli. Milan: Franco Angeli, 1990: pp. 33-51.

Even, Yael. "Daphne (without Apollo) reconsidered: some disregarded images of sexual pursuit in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art." Studies in iconography 18 (1997): pp. 143-159

Pavolo, Claudio. "Entre la force de l'honneur et le pouvoir de la justice: le délit de viol en Italie (XIVe-XIXe siècle)." L'infrajudiciaire du Moyen Age à l'époque contemporaine: actes du colloque de Dijon, 5-6 octobre 1995. Edited by Benoît Garnot. Dijon: Editions universitaires de Dijon, 1996: pp. 153-164.


Mexico: [Link]
Restall, Matthew. ""He wished it in vain": subordination and resistance among Maya women in post-conquest Yucatan." Ethnohistory 42 (1995): pp. 577-594.


Poland: [Link]
Karpiński, Andrzej. "Child abuse in Polish towns: 16th-18th centuries." Acta Poloniae historica No. 88 (2003): pp. 37-64.


Russia: [Link]
Kaiser, Daniel H. ""He said, she said": rape and gender discourse in early modern Russia." Kritika 3 (2002): pp. 197-216.


Scotland: [Link]
Cowan, Edward J. "Sex and violence in the Scottish ballads." The ballad in Scottish history. Edited by Edward J. Cowan. East Linton: Tuckwell, 2000: pp. 95-115.


Spain: [Link]
Barahona, Renato. Sex crimes, honour and the law in early modern Spain: Vizcaya, 1528-1735. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Restall, Matthew. ""He wished it in vain": subordination and resistance among Maya women in post-conquest Yucatan." Ethnohistory 42 (1995): pp. 577-594.


Sweden: [Link]
Granström, Görel. Kvinnorna och rätten: från stormaktstid till rösträttsstrid. Uppsala: Hallgren & Fallgren, 1996.

Jansson, Karin. "Våldtäkt - ett hot mot och/eller ett uttryck för manlig auktoritet i det tidigmoderna Sverige." Manligt och omanligt i ett historiskt perspektiv. Stockholm, 1999.


Switzerland: [Link]
Naphy, William. Sex crimes: from Renaissance to Enlightenment. Stroud: Tempus, 2002.


Wales: [Link]
Walker, Garthine. ""Strange kind of stealing": abduction in early modern Wales." Women and gender in early modern Wales. Edited by Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000: pp. 50-74.


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