This work explores and untangles the theme of rape, and its counterpart ravishment, in Anglo-French cultural tradition between the disintegration of the classical world and the Renaissance. Tracing ...

During the time I had lived in Honolulu I learned that ravishment was an all too common crime. Seldom were the guilty punished. When guilt was proved the punishment meted out was so mild it mocked ...

The words rape, rapture and ravishment come from verbs meaning to seize or take away or transport. “For quite a long time in English,” says Jenni, “rape or ravishment could refer not only to ...

For Mussolini’s 60th birthday, Hitler gave him a de luxe edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s complete works, bound in blue ...

“It seems to me,” said Cuneo, “that James Bond embodies Ian’s revenge for the terrible hurt; Bond tumbles them into bed, leaves them with the memory of a savage ravishment, which, ye ...

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The tag has stuck ever since, and in his cartoon, Political Ravishment, the Old Lady's in danger. 'Murder! Murder!' she cries, using more exclamation marks than even the Mogambo Guru. 'Rape!