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100 1 _aDunn, Caroline,
_d1975-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aStolen women in medieval England :
_brape, abduction and adultery, 1100-1500 /
_cCaroline Dunn.
300 _axi, 261 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aCambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;
_vFourth ser., [no. 87]
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 231-253) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 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.
520 _a"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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650 0 _aAbduction
_zEngland
_xHistory.
650 0 _aRape
_zEngland
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAdultery
_zEngland
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWomen
_xSexual behavior
_zEngland
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY
_zEurope
_xGreat Britain.
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650 7 _aAbduction.
_2fast
650 7 _aAdultery.
_2fast
650 7 _aRape.
_2fast
650 7 _aWomen
_xSexual behavior.
_2fast
651 7 _aEngland.
_2fast
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655 7 _aHistory.
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830 0 _aCambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;
_v4th ser., 87.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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856 4 2 _3Cover image
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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