Start Date
1-5-2019 10:30 AM
End Date
1-5-2019 11:45 AM
Disciplines
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Legal | Medieval History
Subjects
Trials (Adultery), Adultery, Customary law -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages, Patriarchy -- Effect on punishment for adultery, Punishment -- History
Description
Due to the misogynistic roots of history, many scholars believe that female adulterers were punished more harshly than male adulterers; however, the wholistic examination of religion, gender norms, and medieval law reveal that despite the church’s ideology of equal condemnation of male and female adulterers, in reality, male adulterers were punished more frequently than women. By addressing the misconceptions, ideologies, and realities relating to adultery, this enables us to comprehend how social norms, law, and religion mutually influence each other while also revealing inconsistencies between the different fields. This paper focuses on adultery cases in the medieval times and examines the misconception, ideology, and reality of the punishment of adulterers
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/28566
Included in
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Legal Commons, Medieval History Commons
The Examination of Inconsistencies Among the Misconception, Ideology, and Reality of the Punishment of Male and Female Adulterers Through Letters and Court Records
Due to the misogynistic roots of history, many scholars believe that female adulterers were punished more harshly than male adulterers; however, the wholistic examination of religion, gender norms, and medieval law reveal that despite the church’s ideology of equal condemnation of male and female adulterers, in reality, male adulterers were punished more frequently than women. By addressing the misconceptions, ideologies, and realities relating to adultery, this enables us to comprehend how social norms, law, and religion mutually influence each other while also revealing inconsistencies between the different fields. This paper focuses on adultery cases in the medieval times and examines the misconception, ideology, and reality of the punishment of adulterers