"Examples of knightly police action on behalf of women include killing a serial rapist (Book VI, chapter 5. Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur(London: Penguin, 1969))".
Oh, hey, we read about that in my last English Lit class. I think the editor mentioned it in an introduction to Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale," in which a knight rapes a woman, and Arthur's court wants to put him to death by beheading, till Guinevere intercedes and then the whole Chaucer-y tale happens. I remember being pretty surprised by that. I mean, okay, the guy is supposed to be a knight, and obviously that means no rape, but -- instant beheading? Really?
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"Examples of knightly police action on behalf of women include killing a serial rapist (Book VI, chapter 5. Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur(London: Penguin, 1969))".
Oh, hey, we read about that in my last English Lit class. I think the editor mentioned it in an introduction to Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale," in which a knight rapes a woman, and Arthur's court wants to put him to death by beheading, till Guinevere intercedes and then the whole Chaucer-y tale happens. I remember being pretty surprised by that. I mean, okay, the guy is supposed to be a knight, and obviously that means no rape, but -- instant beheading? Really?