Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Start: Topical Index: Prosecution: Trials: Modern Trials:

Prosecution: Trials:
17TH-CENTURY TRIALS

[Site] A m e r i c a n   T r i a l s

[Site] U.S. Trials

[Info] Chandler, Abby. At the Magistrate's Discretion: Sexual Crime and New England Law, 1636-1718. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maine, 2008.


[Site] E u r o p e a n   T r i a l s

[Site] Czech Trials

[Info] Kreuz, Petr. »Zur schweren Sexualdelinquenz vor den böhmischen Stadtgerichten im 16. und beginnenden 17. Jahrhundert.« Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 8 (2019): 158-172.


[Site] English Trials

[Info] Bashar, Nazife. »Rape in England between 1550 and 1700.« The sexual dynamics of history: men's power, women's resistance. Edited by London Feminist History Group. London 1983: 28-42.

[Info] Gollapudi, Aparna. »The Disordered Fundament: Sexual Violence on Boys and Sodomy Trial Narratives in the Old Bailey ProceedingsInterpreting Sexual Violence, 1660-1800. Edited by Anne Greenfield. London 2013: 45-56.

[Info] Varholy, Cristine M. »“But She Woulde Not Consent”: Women’s Narratives of Sexual Assault and Compulsion in Early Modern London.« Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England. Edited by Joseph P. Ward. New York 2008: 41-65.

[Info] Walker, Garthine. »Rape, Acquittal and Culpability in Popular Crime Reports in England, c.1670-c.1750.« Past & Present 220 (2013): 115-142.

[Info] Walker, Garthine. Language, Consent and Culpability in Rape and Child Sexual Abuse in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Wales and England.« 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities. Hempstead 2017.


[Site] French Trials

Cases: Real Offenders: Mathurin de La Cange

[Info] Hibbert, Sian. »Women and Violence in Early Modern Languedoc.« Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Dublin 2022.


[Site] German Trials

Cases: Real Offenders: Johann Heinrich Eilendorff; Real Victims: Ilsche Lilien


[Site] Irish Trials

Cases: Real Offenders: Thomas Ward


[Site] Italian Trials

[Info] Basilico, Alessio. »Giustizia ecclesiastica e trattamento del reato di stupro: Indicazioni di ricerca dalla diocesi di Teramo (1616-1750).« Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica No. 2 (2011): 207-230.

[Info] McNamara, Celeste. »Illicit Sex in Early Modern Venice.« Annual Meeting of the Society for Italian Historical Studies. New York 2020.


[Site] Scottish Trials

[Info] Barclay, Katie. »Malignant passions and carnal desires: Rape in long eighteenth-century Scotland.« Historical Research (July 11, 2024).


[Site] Welsh Trials

[Info] Walker, Garthine. Language, Consent and Culpability in Rape and Child Sexual Abuse in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Wales and England.« 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities. Hempstead 2017.