Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature
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Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature

  1. 214 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature

About this book

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 ecclesiastic and medical texts defined sexual consent and non-consent, and the consequences of such ideologies. By comparing episodes of rape and consent across diverse primary sources, it considers important medieval English rape myths and victim-blaming stereotypes. Significantly, it also highlights the cultural trepidation associated with believing women's accusations of rape and questions how much "progress" we have made since then.

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Information

Publisher
Arc Humanities Press
Year
2024
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781802702170
Subtopic
Legal History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction. Rape and Consent in Medieval England
  7. Chapter 1. The Physicality of (Non-)Consent
  8. Chapter 2. The Duality of Mental and Physical (Non-)Consent
  9. Chapter 3. Laws in Practice
  10. Chapter 4. Consent of the Flesh
  11. Chapter 5. Abductio and Malicious Rape Accusations in Romance
  12. Chapter 6. Rape in Romance
  13. Conclusion
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index

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