Stolen women in medieval England
rape, abduction and adultery, 1100-1500
by Caroline Dunn
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"This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings but cases of adultery fictitiously framed as abduction by abandoned husbands. In pursuing the themes of illicit sexuality and non-normative marital practices, this work analyses the nuances of the key Latin term raptus and the three overlapping offences that it could denote: rape, abduction and adultery. This investigation broadens our understanding of the role of women in the legal system; provides a means for analysing male control over female bodies, sexuality and access to the courts; and reveals ways in which female agency could, on occasion, manoeuvre around such controls"--
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Women, Adultery, Abduction, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, Sexual behavior, Rape, History, Women, sexual behavior, Women, great britainPlaces
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Stolen women in medieval England: rape, abduction and adultery, 1100-1500
2012, Cambridge University Press
in English
1107017009 9781107017009
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