>> Anyway, I -DID- run across a rape trial account where the man was >> convicted because he'd had to pull the girl's braies down before he >> could do the deed. Had there been no braies, her status as >an innocent >> in the proceedings would have been in question. > >I'd be very interested in more details about this trial -- >especially time, place, and how the account has been transmitted to us. > >Heather
I keep forgetting I have PDFs of completed chapters, so finding this wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. The trial is listed in Louis Tanon's "Registre criminal de la Justice de Saint-Martin-des-Champs à Paris au XIVe siécle", Paris: Léon Wilhelm, 1877 "Là, en un selier, fist entrer, oultre son gré et par force, ladicte Perrete la Souplice, et la jeta à terre, et avala ses braies, et se mist sus lui, et s'efforça contre sa nature tant comme il pot..." (Tanon, 88) (Now you guys won't 'need' to get the book should it ever make it off of my computer ; ) ) Astrida ****************** Astrida Schaeffer, Assistant Director The Art Gallery University of New Hampshire Paul Creative Arts Center 30 College Road Durham, NH 03824 (603) 862-0310 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: (603) 862-2191 ****************** _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
