Evil, Vicious, and Nice: Myssruled Women's Bodies in Late Medieval English Courts of Law- [electronic resource]
Evil, Vicious, and Nice: Myssruled Women's Bodies in Late Medieval English Courts of Law- [electronic resource]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214100503
- ISBN
- 9798380879187
- DDC
- 940
- 서명/저자
- Evil, Vicious, and Nice: Myssruled Womens Bodies in Late Medieval English Courts of Law - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : University of California, Berkeley., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(135 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Shagan, Ethan.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2023.
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- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation argues that pre-Reformation policing of women's sexuality in England was much more tolerant than recent scholarship has contended, and that women were adept in using the resources available to them in terms of their networks within the community to navigate the ecclesiastical and civil courts. The project is animated by an often-overlooked gap between the official rhetoric about women's sexuality and practical jurisprudence, i.e., the day-to-day records of indictments, prosecutions, and outcomes. Most women brought to court for sexual misbehavior escaped punishment. Previous scholarship has explained this apparently lax system as evidence of the ineffectiveness of mechanisms of social control before the Elizabethan rise of the state. My original research shows that this was not the case. When women got off, the system was working as intended.Chapter 1 examines the language of the court records of women accused of sexual misbehavior, utilizing Latin and English language court records to demonstrate that authorities had a nuanced understanding of women's sexual misbehavior that was obfuscated by the conventions of late medieval legal Latin. Chapter 2 engages with the scholarly debate about women's sexual reputations and argues that women at the lower end of the social hierarchy were less concerned with their reputations than they were with using the social capital of their male friends to maintain their place, however debased, in their communities. Chapter 3 looks at the late medieval justice system through the lens of restorative justice and argues that this system reflected a focus on restoration rather than retribution. Chapter 4 looks at the elaborate shaming punishments prescribed for women convicted of sexual misbehavior in the context of the culture of performance during the period. Finally, a coda suggests how this research can offer new approaches to feminist medieval historians.
- 일반주제명
- European history.
- 일반주제명
- Law.
- 일반주제명
- Womens studies.
- 일반주제명
- Sexuality.
- 키워드
- Evil
- 키워드
- Vicious
- 키워드
- Nice
- 키워드
- Women
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley History
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-06B.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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