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Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature (Gender and Power in the Premodern World) - Rilegato

Cooper, Mariah L

 
9781802700534: Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature (Gender and Power in the Premodern World)
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ISBN 10: 1802700536 ISBN 13: 9781802700534
Casa editrice: Arc Humanities Press, 2024

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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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Editore
Arc Humanities Press
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1802700536
ISBN 13 
9781802700534
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
214
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