Abduction and Elopement in the Byzantine Novel

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  • Joan B. Burton

Abstract

Violent abduction of a woman against her will is treated with some sympathy in the twelfth-century novel, especially in Theodore Prodromos, in sharp contrast to the romanticism of the ancient novel; this departure is illuminated by the contemporary conflict between the harsh secular and the more indulgent canon law on abduction.

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Published

2000-12-22

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