Crimen atrocissimum: enjuiciamiento y castigo de delitos atroces y su representación en Los cuentos de Canterbury
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...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) |
| Repositorio: | RIULL. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riull.ull.es:915/21725 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/21725 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | crímenes atroces violación tipología penal Geoffrey Chaucer Los cuentos de Canterbury |
| Sumario: | 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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