Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Caviness, Madeline H
• Nelson, Charles G
• Thelma Fenster
• Daniel Lord Smail
• Smail, Daniel Lord
• Fenster, Thelma

Titel

Silent Witnesses, Absent Women, and the Law Courts in Medieval Germany

Ist Teil von

• Fama, 2018, p.47-72

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Famais part of an accusatorial process in Saxon territorial law, as seen—literally—in the fourteenth-century illustrated recensions of a customary-law hook of major importance in German legal history, theSachsenspiegel, orSaxon Mirror.¹ Of particular interest is the way in whichbona famaandmala famaintersect with gender in the illustrations accompanying the text. Among these intersections were proscriptions concerning women’s public speech that ensured that men talk to men about women in the courts. To support a charge of rape (a woman talking about a man), the most persuasive evidence a woman could muster lay in