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Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gen
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Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England
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Shakespeare and the Nature of Love
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The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism
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The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, na