Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies

Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou

    Introduction

    PART ONE: ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

    David Cohen
       Consent and Sexual Relations in Classical Athens

    Mary R. Lefkowitz
       Seduction and Rape in Greek Myth

    Diana C. Moses
       Livy's Lucretia and the Validity of Coerced Consent in Roman Law

    Richard P. Saller
       The Social Dynamics of Consent to Marriage and Sexual Relations: The Evidence of Roman Comedy

    PART TWO: BYZANTIUM

    Angeliki E. Laiou
       Sex, Consent, and Coercion in Byzantium

       --Preface

       I The Legal Categories

       II With Her Consent

       III The Meaning of Force

       IV Coerced Consent

       V The Evidence of Literature

    Conclusion

    PART THREE: THE MEDIEVAL WEST

    Suzanne F. Wemple
       Consent and Dissent to Sexual Intercourse in Germanic Societies from the Fifth to the Tenth Century

    James A. Brundage
       Implied Consent to Intercourse

    John W. Baldwin
       Consent and the Marital Debt: Five Discourses in Northern France around 1200

    Jenny Jochens
       "Meo Jakaeoi Hennar Sjalfrar": Consent as Signifier in the Old Norse World

    Index

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Angeliki E. Laiou is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University and a former Director of Dumbarton Oaks.