Discussion Group: ‘Finding Rape in the Archives: Methodologies for Evaluating Survivor Voices from the Past’

Lucia Akard leads this week on ‘Finding Rape in the Archives: Methodologies for Hearing Survivor Voices from the Past’

11:30-1pm, G5 Teaching Room, Kendrew Quadrangle, St John’s College

All Welcome

Reading:

-Chapter 5 in Ravishing Maidens in Medieval French Literature and the Law, Kathryn Gravdal. (available as an eBook on Solo)

-Introduction (and Chapter 3, optional) in The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature, Suzanne M. Edwards. (only one copy in the Bod stacks, but a scan of the intro can be requested and emailed within 24 hours)

 

Keywords: survivor, rape narratives, sexual violence, archives, violence in the archives.

For further details about the Discussion Group please email Sumner Braund (sumner.braund@sjc.ox.ac.uk).

See here for more information about the CGIS Discussion Group