MARC21: Gender, childhood and sexual violence in the judicial archives of fifteenth-century Bologna

Gender, childhood and sexual violence in the judicial archives of fifteenth-century Bologna

The transcription, translation and study of the preliminary summing-up (relatio), found in the judicial record (liber maleficiorum) of a minor law case in Bologna, dating from 1435, makes it possible to compare attitudes towards sexual abuse perpetrated by men against girls and boys. To express a se...

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Autore principale:	Lett, Didier
Natura:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:	Anglais
Pubblicazione:	Clio 2022
Soggetti:	violence rape Middle Ages sodomy paedophilia viol Moyen Âge pédophilie sodomie
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:cliowgh_1127 https://doi.org/10.4000/cliowgh.1127 urn:doi:10.4000/cliowgh.1127 en https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/1127 2022-10-11T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e3uc All rights reserved Gender, childhood and sexual violence in the judicial archives of fifteenth-century Bologna Clio Belin info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2554-3822 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh Lett, Didier violence rape Middle Ages sodomy paedophilia viol Moyen Âge pédophilie violence sodomie The transcription, translation and study of the preliminary summing-up (relatio), found in the judicial record (liber maleficiorum) of a minor law case in Bologna, dating from 1435, makes it possible to compare attitudes towards sexual abuse perpetrated by men against girls and boys. To express a sexual assault on a girl, the notary uses the same words as those used to designate the rape of a woman. To describe violence against a boy, he uses the vocabulary of sodomy. This finding shows that in the late Middle Ages, it is penetration which creates the sexual act, and that what the texts describe as vicium sodomiticum can often have the modern sense of “paedophilia” when the case concerns boys. La transcription, la traduction et l’étude du libelle d’un petit procès daté de 1435 extrait d’un registre judiciaire (liber maleficiorum) de Bologne permet de comparer les abus sexuels perpétrés par des hommes à l’encontre des filles et des garçons. Pour exprimer une agression sexuelle sur une petite fille, on emploie les mêmes mots que ceux qui servent à désigner le viol d’une femme. Pour décrire la violence commise sur un garçon, on use du vocabulaire de la sodomie. Ce constat permet de montrer qu’à la fin du Moyen Âge, c’est bien la pénétration qui crée l’acte sexuel et que ce que les textes désignent par “vice sodomite” peut souvent avoir le sens moderne de “pédophilie” vis-à-vis des garçons.
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description	The transcription, translation and study of the preliminary summing-up (relatio), found in the judicial record (liber maleficiorum) of a minor law case in Bologna, dating from 1435, makes it possible to compare attitudes towards sexual abuse perpetrated by men against girls and boys. To express a sexual assault on a girl, the notary uses the same words as those used to designate the rape of a woman. To describe violence against a boy, he uses the vocabulary of sodomy. This finding shows that in the late Middle Ages, it is penetration which creates the sexual act, and that what the texts describe as vicium sodomiticum can often have the modern sense of “paedophilia” when the case concerns boys.
author	Lett, Didier
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title	Gender, childhood and sexual violence in the judicial archives of fifteenth-century Bologna
title_short	Gender, childhood and sexual violence in the judicial archives of fifteenth-century Bologna
title_full	Gender, childhood and sexual violence in the judicial archives of fifteenth-century Bologna
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Gender, childhood and sexual violence in the judicial archives of fifteenth-century Bologna

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