Marginalized women. The case of the Castilian concubines
David WAIMAN
Original title: Mujeres marginadas. El caso de las concubinas castellanas
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Castile, Concubinage, Concubines, Middle Ages, Sexuality.
Concubinage has been, over the past decade, several investigations. While increasingly know more about concubines and late medieval concubinage. This time we will try to give a new look to the pasts in Castile in the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Added to this will be analytical axis as the role of women in concubinage, seeing in them the various forms that are part of that reality.
Pleasure, sin, crime. Sexuality and sexual violence on the southern Valencian border at the end of the Middle Ages. Some examples
José Vicente CABEZUELO PLIEGO
Original title: Placer, pecado, delito. Sexualidad y violencia sexual en la frontera meridional valenciana a fines de la Edad Media. Algunos ejemplos
Published in
Keywords: Border, Kingdom of Valencia, Middle Ages, Sexual Violence, Sexuality.
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.
