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				First published: April 1, 2025 - Last updated: August 1, 2025
			TITLE INFORMATION 
			
			Authors: Jane Bonsall and Hannah Piercy
			
 Title: Introduction
 
 Subtitle: Why Reconsider Medieval Consent and Coercion? Why Now?
 
 In: Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature
 
 Edited by: Jane Bonsall and Hannah Piercy
 
 Place: Turnhout
 
 Publisher: Brepols Publishers
 
 Year: 2025
 
 Pages: 17-34
 
 Series: Gender and Sexuality in the Global Middle Ages 1
 
 ISBN-13: 9782503605296 (hbk.) - 
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			ISBN-13: 9782503605302 (ebk.) - 
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 Language: English
 
 Keywords: 
				Medieval History | 
				Types: 
					Sexual Assault / 
						Rape; 
				Representations: 
					Literary Texts
 
 FULL TEXT
 
			
			Link:
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 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 
			
			Authors:
			- 
				Jane Bonsall, 
					School of Modern Languages, 
					University of St Andrews - 
					Academia.edu, 
					ORCID
 
 - 
				Hannah Piercy, 
					Department of English, 
					Universität Bern (University of Bern) - 
					Academia.edu
 
 Contents:
 
			
			
			|  | Defining and Theorising Consent (p. 21) |  
			|  | Contextualising Consent and Coercion in the Middle Ages (p. 23) |  
			|  | Reconsidering Medieval Consent and Coercion (p. 29) |  Wikipedia: 
				Literature: 
					Medieval literature | 
				Sex and the law: 
					Sexual violence / 
						Sexual consent
 |