Author: Mariah Cooper, Department of History and Classics, Acadia University - Academia.edu

Contents:

	List of Illustrations (p. vii)
	Abbreviations (p. ix)
	Acknowledgements (p. 1)
	Introduction. Rape and Consent in Medieval England (p. 3)
		Sources and Structure (p. 13)
	Chapter 1. The Physicality of (Non-)Consent: Secular raptus Laws (p. 19)
		Glanvill (p. 20)
		Bracton (p. 24)
		The First Statute of Westminster (p. 36)
		The Second Statute of Westminster (p. 40)
		The Statute of Rapes (p. 42)
		Concluding Thoughts (p. 47)
	Chapter 2. The Duality of Mental and Physical (Non-)Consent: Ecclesiastical Perspectives (p. 49)
		Raptus in Canon Law (p. 50)
		Consent of the Flesh-Mind Debate (p. 56)
		Concluding Thoughts (p. 66)
	Chapter 3. Laws in Practice: The Eyre Courts (p. 69)
		Glanvill-Era Cases, 1201–1227 (p. 71)
		Bracton-Era Cases, 1232–1274 (p. 75)
		Westminster I-Era Cases, 1275–1285 (p. 82)
		Westminster II-Era Cases, 1285–1330 (p. 92)
		Concluding Thoughts (p. 107)
	Chapter 4. Consent of the Flesh (p. 109)
		Two-Seed Theory of Conception (p. 109)
		Conception as Bodily Consent (p. 115)
		Bodily Victimization (p. 122)
	Chapter 5. Abduction and Malicious Rape Accusations in Romance (p. 125)
		Sir Orfeo (p. 126)
		Amis and Amiloun (p. 131)
	Chapter 6. Rape in Romance (p. 139)
		Sir Degare (p. 139)
		Sir Gowther (p. 149)
		Le Bone Florence of Rome (p. 158)
		Concluding Thoughts (p. 166)
	Conclusion. The Body of Proof and the Rapable Body (p. 169)
	Bibliography (p. 183)
		Archival and Manuscript Material (p. 183)
			Legal and Medical Manuscripts (p. 183)
			Legal and Literary Manuscripts Held at Kew, The National Archives (p. 183)
				Close Rolls (p. 183)
				Coroners’ Rolls (p. 183)
				Gaol Delivery Rolls (p. 183)
				General Eyre Plea Rolls (p. 184)
				King’s Bench Rolls (p. 184)
				Legal and Medical Manuscripts (p. 184)
				Literary Manuscripts (p. 185)
			Primary Sources (p. 185)
				Legal and Medical Primary Sources in Translation or Edited (p. 185)
				Literary Primary Sources in Translation or Edited (p. 186)
		Secondary Sources (p. 187)
			Dictionaries and Reference Material (p. 197)
	Index (p. 199)

Description: »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.« (Source: Arc Humanities Press)

Thesis: Cooper, Mariah. The Body of Proof: Representations of Rape and Consent in Medieval England’s Laws and Literature. Ph.D. Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2022. - Bibliographic Entry: Info

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Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of England / England in the High Middle Ages, England in the Late Middle Ages | Court: Medieval English court system / Eyre (legal term) | Law: Canon law / Canon law of the Catholic Church | Law: English law / Medieval English law, Statute of Westminster 1275, Statute of Westminster 1285 | Literature: English literature / Amis and Amiloun, Le Bone Florence of Rome, Sir Degaré, Sir Gowther, Sir Orfeo | Sex and the law: Rape / Rape in England