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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Berg Publishers
2009
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