Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval English Laws and Literature
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 und...
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Arc Humanities Press
2024
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