José Vicente CABEZUELO PLIEGO

Pleasure, sin, crime. Sexuality and sexual violence on the southern Valencian border at the end of the Middle Ages. Some examples

Placer, pecado, delito. Sexualidad y violencia sexual en la frontera meridional valenciana a fines de la Edad Media. Algunos ejemplos

Published in Life and Thought, Religiosity and Conflict, Pleasure and Crime on Both Sides of the Mediterranean (the Crown of Aragon and Acre)

Keywords: Border, Kingdom of Valencia, Middle Ages, Sexual Violence, Sexuality.

PDF download:

PDF icon 14.cabezuelo.pdf

This study analyzes some examples extracted from archival sources to contextualize and understand the key to these type of relations in the everyday life of the southern frontier of the Kingdom of Valencia within the Crown of Aragon. It pays particular attention to some aspects of sexuality and sexual violence, the connotations and varied meaning of pleasure, sin and crime.