SOURCE: “Replaying Rape: Feudal Law on Trial in Le Roman de Renart,” in Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, pp. 72-103.
In the following excerpt, Gravdal argues that by allowing legal procedures to dominate the rape trial episodes of the Roman de Renart, its authors challenged societal respect for feudal court practices.
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