To browse Academia. The assumptions the tribunal produced of sexually active women often relied on and mirrored the ideas their male peers held of them as public objects rather than full persons.
Consequently, women of sin were at higher risk of sexual assault and murder, or torture and execution in the courts. Women relied on these supports. This study builds on current research on medieval sex and gender that illustrate the complex ways in which people were thinking about sexuality and producing fama at street level. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Journal of Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Scholars Journal of Engineering and Technology, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google.
Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. However, as legal documents of practice they provide information on the lives, the movements and the associations of the criminals and their entourage.
Of the individuals brought before the tribunal according to the Registre, nineteen criminals were women. The tribunal impugned the vast majority of these women as a result of their connections, their criminality or their [Correction added on 09 March , after first online publication: The number of trials has been changed from to It is tempting to argue that their judgments accurately reflect the values of their time regarding gender and sexuality — at least in Paris.
The logic and the vocabulary legal professionals of the Middle Ages used did not always coincide with the norms or values of their own communities.
