VIOLENT DISCIPLINE OR DISCIPLINING VIOLENCE? EXPERIENCE AND RECEPTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN LATE THIRTEENTH- AND EARLY FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS AND PICARDY

This article explores medieval French attitudes towards physical intra-familial violence, and asks why some acts of brutality were defined as reprehensible and deviant 'violence', while others were lauded as normal patriarchal discipline of a deviant victim. Using legal records from Picard...

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Main Author: Skoda, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Berg Publishers 2009
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description This article explores medieval French attitudes towards physical intra-familial violence, and asks why some acts of brutality were defined as reprehensible and deviant 'violence', while others were lauded as normal patriarchal discipline of a deviant victim. Using legal records from Picardy and Paris, repertoires of violent gestures are analysed and set in the context of the interplay of the practice of domestic violence, canon law discussions, and contemporary legal proceedings. Thirteenth-century legal and moral discourse condemned excessive domestic violence; yet, paradoxically, the power of violence to communicate and to correct was widely acknowledged. The article concludes by exploring popular literature's engagement with this ambivalence. © The Social History Society 2009.
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spelling oxford-uuid:b987c7d6-f55e-4764-ad45-3df99b5979ff2022-03-27T05:03:24ZVIOLENT DISCIPLINE OR DISCIPLINING VIOLENCE? EXPERIENCE AND RECEPTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN LATE THIRTEENTH- AND EARLY FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS AND PICARDYJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b987c7d6-f55e-4764-ad45-3df99b5979ffEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordBerg Publishers2009Skoda, HThis article explores medieval French attitudes towards physical intra-familial violence, and asks why some acts of brutality were defined as reprehensible and deviant 'violence', while others were lauded as normal patriarchal discipline of a deviant victim. Using legal records from Picardy and Paris, repertoires of violent gestures are analysed and set in the context of the interplay of the practice of domestic violence, canon law discussions, and contemporary legal proceedings. Thirteenth-century legal and moral discourse condemned excessive domestic violence; yet, paradoxically, the power of violence to communicate and to correct was widely acknowledged. The article concludes by exploring popular literature's engagement with this ambivalence. © The Social History Society 2009.
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VIOLENT DISCIPLINE OR DISCIPLINING VIOLENCE? EXPERIENCE AND RECEPTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN LATE THIRTEENTH- AND EARLY FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS AND PICARDY
title VIOLENT DISCIPLINE OR DISCIPLINING VIOLENCE? EXPERIENCE AND RECEPTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN LATE THIRTEENTH- AND EARLY FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS AND PICARDY
title_full VIOLENT DISCIPLINE OR DISCIPLINING VIOLENCE? EXPERIENCE AND RECEPTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN LATE THIRTEENTH- AND EARLY FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS AND PICARDY
title_fullStr VIOLENT DISCIPLINE OR DISCIPLINING VIOLENCE? EXPERIENCE AND RECEPTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN LATE THIRTEENTH- AND EARLY FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS AND PICARDY
title_full_unstemmed VIOLENT DISCIPLINE OR DISCIPLINING VIOLENCE? EXPERIENCE AND RECEPTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN LATE THIRTEENTH- AND EARLY FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS AND PICARDY
title_short VIOLENT DISCIPLINE OR DISCIPLINING VIOLENCE? EXPERIENCE AND RECEPTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN LATE THIRTEENTH- AND EARLY FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS AND PICARDY
title_sort violent discipline or disciplining violence experience and reception of domestic violence in late thirteenth and early fourteenth century paris and picardy
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