Stolen women in medieval England : rape, abduction and adultery, 1100-1500 /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunn, Caroline, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2013, ©2013.
Colección:Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought.
Temas:
Abduction > England > History.
Rape > England > History.
Adultery > England > History.
Women > Sexual behavior > England > History.
Enlèvement de femmes > Angleterre > Histoire.
Femmes > Sexualité > Angleterre > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Abduction
Adultery
Rape
Women > Sexual behavior
Frau
Entführung
Vergewaltigung
Zwangsheirat
Ehebruch
England
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Laws and legal definitions
  • 2. Rape
  • 3. Abduction and forced marriage
  • 4. Elopement abductions
  • 5. Adultery
  • 6. Retaliatory abductions and malicious legal proceedings
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I: ravishment legislation
  • Appendix II: sources of ravishment cases.

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