Representations of rape and consent in medieval English laws and literature:

How did legal, literary, and scientific discourses intersect to define sexual non-consent in the Middle Ages? How did popular cultural assumptions about sexuality and gender influence actual medieval criminal proceedings? And how far have we really come today?This book explores medieval English unde...

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1. Verfasser: Cooper, Mariah L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leeds Arc Humanities Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:Gender and power in the premodern world
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Zusammenfassung:How did legal, literary, and scientific discourses intersect to define sexual non-consent in the Middle Ages? How did popular cultural assumptions about sexuality and gender influence actual medieval criminal proceedings? And how far have we really come today?This book explores medieval English understandings of rape, consent, and the assumed mind-body dichotomy of rapists and rape victims. It demonstrates how laws, trial records, popular romance, and ecclesia
Beschreibung:x, 203 Seiten Illustrationen (s/w) 24 cm
ISBN:9781802700534
9781802702743
1802700536