Crimen atrocissimumenjuiciamiento y castigo de delitos atroces y su representación en Los cuentos de Canterbury

  1. Miguel Martínez López 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Valencia (España)
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Cuadernos del CEMYR

ISSN: 1135-125X

Datum der Publikation: 2019

Nummer: 27

Seiten: 109-144

Art: Artikel

DOI: 10.25145/J.CEMYR.2019.27.04 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openRIULL editor

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Zusammenfassung

This paper analyses some of the main legal texts that regulate the prosecution and punishment of exceptional crimes in medieval English law, and their transposition into Geoffrey Chaucer’s literary work. Some fundamental features of the legal framework for the prosecution of these crimes between the 12th and the 14th centuries are also studied; the procedural singularities of this type of prosecution are explored through the analysis of the trial and execution of Hugh Le Despenser (1286-1326) and through the rape theme in Geoffrey Chaucer’s works, with a particular focus on The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer writes in a new context, when conceptual, terminological and typological clarification of rape as a heinous crime against the person, a crime that carried the death penalty, was seeing significant progress.

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