title: Brides and Doom: Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic (The Middle Ages Series)
author:  Jerold C. Frakes 
description: Jerold C. Frakes is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo
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  The Lord’s Forced Bride
  
  ANNE HERRIES
  
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  TORONTO • NEW YORK • LONDON  
  AMSTERDAM • PARIS • SYDNEY • HAMBURG  
  STOCKHOLM • ATHENS • TOKYO • MILAN • MADRID  
  PRAGUE • WARSAW • BUDAPEST • AUCKLAND
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  [ Chapter One ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch01)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Chapter Two ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch02)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Chapter Three ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch03)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Chapter Four ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch04)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Chapter Five ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch05)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Chapter Six ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch06)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Chapter Seven ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch07)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Chapter Eight ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch08)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Chapter Nine ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch09)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Chapter Ten ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch10)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Chapter Eleven ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch11)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Chapter Twelve ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#ch12)
  
  
  
  
  
  [ Afterword ](lordsforcedbridethe.html#aft)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  A ndrew, Earl of Gifford, heard the sounds of fi