Rereading Rape and Sexual Violence in Early Modern England

Walker, Garthine

doi:10.1111/1468-0424.00087

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“…London: C. Corbett, at Addsion Head, Fleet Street 9. On the interpretation of sexual violence in early Modern England, see Walker (1998).…”

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Ponterotto

2014

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This paper presents an analysis of the forms and functions that a normal conversational strategy like hedging can assume in an institutionalized form of discourse -in this case, the courtroom, and particularly, in a specific juridical text-type: the cross-examination of the victim-witness in a rape trial. The study aims to show principally how the defence attorney of the accused exploits the hedging strategies of the female victim-witness in order to discredit her testimony and thereby win the case for the defence. By so doing, the argumentation will make two theoretical points. The first point is disciplinary, in that it will demonstrate the powerful contribution of the language sciences to the identification and unveiling of social injustice. The second point is ideological, in that it will show how some areas of Anglo-American institutions continue to reflect a social tendency towards leniency in the face of violence against women.

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“…London: C. Corbett, at Addsion Head, Fleet Street 9. On the interpretation of sexual violence in early Modern England, see Walker (1998).…”

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2014

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“…20 In a published response, Garthine Walker took Chaytor to task over many of her assumptions. 21 The most basic accusation is that Chaytor, who is informed by psychoanalysis, imposes modern readings on early modern accounts of rape. Walker insists that 'accounts of subjective, personal experiences are produced and made sense of within available collective, cultural meanings'.…”

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Testifying to the self

Laven¹

2018

Judicial Tribunals in England and Europe, 1200–1700

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In the summer of 1614, scandal erupted at San Zaccaria, the oldest and most aristocratic of the Venetian convents. Laura Querini, a noble nun in her mid-forties, was found guilty of having had sexual intercourse, repeatedly, with a young nobleman in a storeroom situated on the edge of the nunnery. Testifying before Patriarch Francesco Vendramin, the head of the Venetian Church, Laura Querini told her story from the very beginning: I came to this convent as a little girl during the time of plague [1575-77]. .. ; and then I was sent as a boarding-girl to another convent, San Vido on the island of Burano, where I stayed for five or six years until I was accepted as a nun back at this convent-I must have been about fifteen years old. I took my initial vows at the ceremony of clothing; then I made my profession; but I spoke with my mouth and not with my heart. I have always been tempted by the Devil to break my own neck. 1 Laura revealed that she first met her lover-whom she called by the pseudonym of Zuanne Cocco-six years before her fall into scandal. He was introduced to her by a woman called Donna Cipriana, who over the years had supplied the noble nun with a series of 'friendships'. Laura stated that, during the course of these liaisons, 'I never did anything wicked, that is, I never lost my virginity'. 2 But with Zuanne, a young man about twenty years her junior, things were different. Not satisfied by their occasional meetings in the convent parlour, Laura pursued Zuanne with absolute determination: I fell in love with him, and I induced him to love me. I used every means to make him love me, including diabolical methods, that is, spells and superstitious prayers invoking devils, and I paid Donna Cipriana to provide me with these things. 3 Young Zuanne, however, was wary of the risks that he ran. Less than a decade earlier, in 1605, the Venetian government had passed a stern new law, which

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“…In English courts, for example, women highlighted violence and injuries in evidence against the men they accused of raping them; and it was also these details that judges and lawyers looked to for corroboration of a woman's story. 58 For an attack to be understood as rape or attempted rape, both obvious lack of consent and obvious physical violence were essential.…”

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‘The Rebels Turkish Tyranny’: Understanding Sexual Violence in Ireland during the 1640s

Hall

Malcolm

2010

Gender & History

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This article analyses gendered violence both in the testimonies of English Protestant settlers displaced during the 1641 Irish rebellion and in the pamphlets written shortly afterwards. It argues that, given the settlers’ anxiety to highlight their vulnerability and innocence in the face of perceived native Irish barbarism, sexual violence with its suggestions of possible female acquiescence or complicity had an insecure place in their testimonies. Yet contemporary pamphlet writers described the rape of Protestant women as widespread and indiscriminate, using such narratives to question the masculinity of Catholic Irish men. By investigating personal testimonies of the sexual violence suffered by women, as well as the subsequent use of such information in narratives sensationalising the ordeal of Protestants in Ireland in 1641, the complex meanings attached to sexual violence during the mid‐seventeenth century can be better appreciated.

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Rereading Rape and Sexual Violence in Early Modern England

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‘The Rebels Turkish Tyranny’: Understanding Sexual Violence in Ireland during the 1640s

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