TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dunn,Caroline
TI  - Stolen women in medieval England: rape, abduction and adultery, 1100-1500 
T2  - Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought
SN  - 9781107017009
AV  - HV6574.G7 D86 2013
U1  - 362.8830942/0902 23
KW  -  
KW  - Abduction
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Rape
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Women
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-253) and index; Introduction -- 1. Laws and legal definitions -- 2. Rape -- 3. Abduction and forced marriage -- 4. Elopement -- 5. Adultery -- 6. Retaliatory abductions and malicious legal proceedings -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. Ravishment legislation -- Appendix II. Sources of ravishment cases
N2  - "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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