RT Book T1 Stolen women in Medieval England: rape, abduction, and adultery ; 1100 - 1500 T2 Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought JF Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought A1 Dunn, Caroline 1975- LA English PP Cambridge PB Cambridge University Press YR 2013 ED 1. publ. UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/715558927 AB "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"-- NO Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke NO Reihenzählung lt. Homepage des Verlags CN HV6574.G7 SN 9781107017009 K1 Abduction : England : History K1 Rape : England : History K1 Adultery : England : History K1 Women : Sexual behavior : England : History K1 Abduction : England : History : To 1500 K1 Rape : England : History : To 1500 K1 Adultery : England : History : To 1500 K1 Women : Sexual behavior : England : History : To 1500 K1 Women : England : Social conditions K1 England : Frau : Entführung : Sexueller Missbrauch : Geschichte 1100-1500