Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100–1500
by
Caroline Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings...