IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 307: Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records, III: Gender and Violence

Sponsor:	St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Organiser:	Jamie Page, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Moderator/Chair:	Ian Forrest, Oriel College, University of Oxford
Paper 307-a	Women and Sexual Violence: The Perspective from Later Medieval English Courts (Language: English) Jeremy Goldberg, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Law, Women's Studies
Paper 307-b	Prostitution and Sexual Identity Revisited: A Case Study from Late Medieval Zürich (Language: English) Jamie Page, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Law, Women's Studies
Abstract	Violence is a common theme in court documents of the late Middle Ages. As developments in legal procedure facilitated the ability of individuals to gain recognition of their conflicts, and enabled judicial authorities to pursue deviant behaviour more effectively, records survive in ever greater numbers which show how individuals negotiated violence in their social groups. Looking especially at gender, the papers in this session focus on individuals who found their way into legal archives as perpetrators or victims of violence, and focus on the problems of interpretation and the drawing-out of broader social histories associated with these sources.