DUMBARTON OAKS OTHER TITLES IN BYZANTINE STUDIES

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

Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou

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Publication Date: 01/30/1998

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Introduction
I. Ancient Greece and Rome
- Consent and Sexual Relations in Classical Athens [David Cohen]
- Seduction and Rape in Greek Myth [Mary R. Lefkowitz]
- Livy’s Lucretia and the Validity of Coerced Consent in Roman Law [Diana C. Moses]
- The Social Dynamics of Consent to Marriage and Sexual Relations: The Evidence of Roman Comedy [Richard P. Saller]
II. Byzantium
- Sex, Consent, and Coercion in Byzantium [Angeliki E. Laiou]
  - Preface
  - i. The Legal Categories
  - ii. With Her Consent
  - iii. The Meaning of Force
  - iv. Coerced Consent
  - v. The Evidence of Literature
  - Conclusion
III. The Medieval West
- Consent and Dissent to Sexual Intercourse in Germanic Societies from the Fifth to the Tenth Century [Suzanne F. Wemple]
- Implied Consent to Intercourse [James A. Brundage]
- Consent and the Marital Debt: Five Discourses in Northern France around 1200 [John W. Baldwin]
- “Meo Jakaeoi Hennar Sjalfrar”: Consent as Signifier in the Old Norse World [Jenny Jochens]
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