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