'Never-ending Nightmare: Demons & Sexual Assault in the Medieval and Modern Times'

Description

Trump’s hostility towards women is an unfortunate inheritance from the Middle Ages, especially discourse about the biologically female body. In medieval Europe, union with an incubus (male demon) was believed to result in the birth of witches, demons, and ‘deformed’ human offspring, consequences marked by punishment rather than understanding. Therefore, I contend that the incubus is a potent figure to contemplate current debates about the re-productive body because the incubus, as demonic entity and monster, eerily reads like the perpetrators of sexual violence in the modern world: controlling, untouchable, and evil.

Period	13 May 2023
Event title	2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Event type	Conference
Degree of Recognition	International