Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance

1.       Chapter 1 Introduction: Too Close for Comfort

2.       Chapter 2  Kinship Matters: An Immodest Proposal  

2.1   Medieval Definitions and Examples of Incest

2.2   Incest from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

2.3   Anthropological Definitions of Incest

        3.  Chapter 3  Heroines, Vilains, and Barbarians in Other Medieval Incest Narratives

            3.1 La Manekine and Medieval Hungary

       4.  Medieval Marriage, Misogamy, and Misogyny

             4.2 Monstrous Marriage

             4.3 Contaminated Rhetoric

             4.4 Containing Desire: Ritual Abstinence

        5. Chapter 5 The Hand of Forgiveness

        6. Chapter 6 Regurgitation, Restitution, Resurrection, and Relics

        7. Chapter 7 Spirit and Letter: Speech Acts in Selected Medieval Texts

        8. Chapter 8 Conclusion: The Legacy of the Incest Motif