Consent

Piercy, Hannah (2024). Consent (Submitted). In: Sauer, Michelle M.; Watt, Diane; McAvoy, Liz Herbert (eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan

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Consent affected medieval women’s lives and engagement with literary culture in a variety of ways. Consent was invoked within the contexts of marriage and sex, whether upheld as crucial for a valid marriage or violated through rape or abduction. The significance of consent varied depending upon regional, temporal, and cultural factors. Whether as writers or readers, medieval women engaged with the idea of consent through literary representations as well as in legal contexts and their own experiences. Literature offered a means through which women could articulate desire and volition, voice dissent to patriarchal representations of violent sexuality, or express rage at sexual assault. This entry surveys the representation of consent in marriage and rape law within Christian, Islamic, and Jewish contexts and explores how medieval women’s literary culture engaged with these ideas. Finally, it includes two case studies of consent and coercion in medieval women’s writing from Japan and Korea.

Item Type:	Book Section (Encyclopedia Article)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures > Old English
UniBE Contributor:	Piercy, Hannah Elizabeth
Subjects:	800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 820 English & Old English literatures 400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages 400 Language > 490 Other languages 900 History > 940 History of Europe 900 History > 950 History of Asia
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Language:	English
Submitter:	Hannah Elizabeth Piercy
Date Deposited:	22 Feb 2024 08:12
Last Modified:	22 Feb 2024 08:12
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/193147