This¿book explores medieval English understandings of rape and consent, and demonstrates how laws, trial records, popular romance, and ecclesiastic and medical texts defined sexual consent and non-consent, and the consequences of such ideologies.
Cooper Mariah L. :
Mariah L. Cooper received her PhD in medieval history from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her research and publishing focus on histories of gender, sexuality, sexual assault, and coercive consent. Mariah teaches at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada.