Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)

Puff, Helmut

doi:10.1215/10829636-30-1-41

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“…45 Her punishment was not as severe because she did not transgress any She knocked on the door so long that in the end she (i.e., Else) let her in…Then (however) she who stands in the dock lay down in bed with her and, during many quarrels, sat down on top of the above-mentioned Else, and tried to seduce her and to have her manly will with her…As she in fact did it with her once just like a man. 39 gender boundaries according to her testimony. Even though Else described that she attempted to fight the sexual encounter, it was not viewed as rape by the court system.…”

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Blindfolded Lady Justice with her scales rarely features in modern representations of medieval European justice. Instead, it is the female sexual sinner bound to the stake for burning who dominates modern imaginings. This reflects a widespread perception of medieval criminal justice as committed to the fierce judicial repression of women, and of women’s sexual activity in particular; an idea that persists in scholarly circles as well as in popular imagination despite a growing body of evidence to the contrary. Working primarily from the records of late medieval northern France, this article demonstrates that this idea is in fact a medievalism, a modern imagining about the Middle Ages. It attributes to medieval judicial authorities the disciplining and punishing of female bodies and female sexuality that instead emerged only with modern patriarchies. Heeding this difference allows us to recognise in Medieval Europe a patriarchal darkness of another kind: a world able to maintain stark gender and sexual inequity without any such use of judicial powers.

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Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)

Cited by 19 publications

References 23 publications

Women and Violence in Late Medieval Europe

Women and Violence in Late Medieval Europe

The Eidolic Lesbian in Early Modern England

Judging sexy women in late medieval France

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