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Acknowledgements 9 List of Illustrations 11 List of Abbreviations 13 Introduction 15 Chapter One: Setting the Scene: Discourses of Passivity and Violence 44 Chapter Two: Types and Frequency of Abuse in the Medieval Law Courts 82 Chapter Three: Causes of Marital Tension 112 Chapter Four: The Acceptability of Marital Violence: Six Case Studies 145 Chapter Five: Regulating Marital Violence: The Family and the Community 198 Chapter Six: Scolds, Personal Liability, and Marital Violence 240 Conclusion 272 Works Cited 281 Index 295
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- Author
- Butler, Sara Margaret
- Publisher
- Brill
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
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