La confrontation des genres au tribunal au Moyen Âge (XIVe-XVIe siècles). Une relecture des relations de couples en conflit
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Martine CharageatKeywords
CouplesJustice
Conflict
Officialdom
Corps
Divorce
Saevitia
Middle Ages
Couple
Justice
Conflit
Officialité
Corps
Saevitia
Divorce
Moyen Âge
Women. Feminism
HQ1101-2030.7
The family. Marriage. Woman
HQ1-2044
Social Sciences
H
DOAJ:Gender Studies
DOAJ:Social Sciences
History (General)
D1-2009
History (General) and history of Europe
D
DOAJ:History
DOAJ:History and Archaeology
Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
HN1-995
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La conflictualité conjugale analysée avec le concept de genre, et pas seulement en vue de vérifier l’application ou non du droit matrimonial par les juges d’église, rejoint le courant davantage socio-anthropologique que juridique de l’histoire du couple en Occident au Moyen Âge. Un souffle d’optimisme historiographique provient de travaux récents, dans un champ d’étude où l’on tardait encore à apprécier la capacité des femmes à ne pas subir de tristes situations conjugales, faites de violence, de misère sentimentale et sexuelle. Il n’empêche que le conflit, au moment de sa création, son récit devant le juge, les attentes des litigants quant à sa résolution obéissent à un rapport de force entre genres clairement distingués entre eux jusque dans le choix des normes, des arguments invoqués, de la rhétorique judiciaire déployée dans les procès. Même lorsque le couple agit par collusion, le dialogue avec le juge obéit aussi à des différences de genre.<br>The analysis of matrimonial conflicts using the concept of gender, which goes beyond the verification of whether judges applied or not canonical law, draws more on socio-anthropological trends in the history of the married couple in the middle ages than on legal trends. The new historiographical optimism present in recent works testifies to how women were able to refuse some matrimonial situations despite the existence of domestic violence, forced sexual abstinence (impotence) and limited sentimental exchanges with their husbands. Nonetheless, this article highlights how gender determined the nature of every matrimonial conflict and its description before the judge. Gender underwrote as well the expectations litigants had in using lawsuits, given the power relationship between the sexes, even when wives and husbands sought a judicial separation by mutual agreement.Date
2009-12-01Type
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https://doaj.org/article/b177aa457f0144d99a94b0ceb61a2040
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