Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature

AvMariah L. Cooper

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:366 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gender and Power in the Premodern World
Antal sidor:214
Förlag:Arc Humanities Press
ISBN:9781802702743

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Mariah L. Cooper received her PhD in medieval history from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her research and publishing focus on histories of gender, sexuality, sexual assault, and coercive consent. Mariah teaches at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroduction. Rape and Consent in Medieval EnglandChapter 1. The Physicality of (Non-)Consent: Secular raptus LawsChapter 2. The Duality of Mental and Physical (Non-)Consent: Ecclesiastical PerspectivesChapter 3. Laws in Practice: The Eyre CourtsChapter 4. Consent of the FleshChapter 5. Abduction and Malicious Rape Accusations in RomanceChapter 6. Rape in RomanceConclusion. The Body of Proof and the Rapable BodyBibliographyIndex