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The Language of Abuse by Butler, S.M.

By Butler, S.M.

Drawing on quite a lot of criminal and literary resources, this booklet deals a accomplished research into the acceptability of violence in marriage at a time while social expectancies of gender and marriage have been in transition.

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Januensis made clear what Chobham only hinted at. Clerical writers perceived domestic violence as an abuse of the hierarchical relationship 22 Brundage, 187. As cited and translated in Andrew Galloway, “Marriage Sermons, Polemical Sermons, and The Wife of Bath’s Prologue: A Generic Excursus,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992): 18. Galloway notes that at least twenty-two collections of Januensis’s sermons are extant from later medieval England, as well as manifold adaptations and derivations of his work by English preachers, demonstrating that his sermons were very influential in late medieval English society.

41 I examined not only those gaol deliveries that belong to the class of records categorised as gaol delivery ( JUST 3), but also those that appear in the records of the eyre courts from the early part of the period ( JUST 1) and those in the King’s Bench rolls (KB 27). 42 Coroners’ rolls exist for York for the period 1333 to 1393, in what seems to be a fairly unbroken series. Similarly, records of gaol deliveries for York are numerous and concentrated in the fourteenth century, although some rolls do exist from both the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries.

C. Milsom, Historical Foundations of the Common Law (London: Butterworths, 1981), 283–313. 59 Stretton, 17. 60 Stretton, 22. introduction 23 songs, plays, laws, treatises and literature, in the hope of providing a better understanding of medieval perceptions of abuse. Because marital strife was such a common theme in medieval literature of all forms, this study cannot possibly aspire to a comprehensive survey of the literature. Instead, a selection of works focusing specifically on instances of physical violence and known to have been popular in late medieval England have been investigated to enhance and complement the legal evidence in this study.

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