(RE)COUNTING RAPE IN ALFRED'S DOMBOC AND EARLY ENGLISH LAW.
This article uses quantitative and linguistic methodologies to explore how sexual violations to the female body were understood and subsequently adjudicated in Anglo-Saxon England, using Alfred's domboc, or "judgement book," as primary evidence. While the specificity with which Alfred considered rap...
| Publicado en: | Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval & Renaissance Studies Vol. 48; pp. 1 - 20 |
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University of California at Los Angeles, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
2017
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