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Stolen Women in Medieval England - Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100-1500 (Paperback)
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Stolen Women in Medieval England - Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100-1500 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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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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