Victims and survivors of rape in late medieval France and Burgundy

Thesis

This thesis examines victim/survivor experiences of rape and other sexual violations in late medieval France and Burgundy. Though scholars have studied rape in medieval France, few have considered what it was like for the women who endured rape, and none have explored how victims/survivors thought about their own consent. This thesis addresses that gap in the scholarship, proposes new methods for how we might examine victim/survivor experience in medieval documents, and argues that the onl...

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Authors: Akard, L

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: middle ages; medieval france; medieval women; medieval gender; medieval consent; sexual assault; rape; medieval rape; medieval; sexual violence; consent
• Subjects: Social history; French; History