"Introduction. Le rapt politique, acteurs chosifiés et fonctions magnifiées"
(2020) Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes — Vol. 39, n° 1, p. 13-25 (2020)
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- (en) Along with murder and a whole range of intimidating acts, abduction used to belong to the arsenal of violence which punctuated medieval and early modern political life. The abduction of women, with or without their consent, was a widespread phenomenon in those societies. But its political adaptation also targeted frail, young or mad princes, as well as the monarch’s ennemies. Very often, kidnappings were improvised and performed by actors in a rush. Although rarely named with proper words, those abductions became an increasingly absorbing concern among courtly environments, thus confirming the decisive importance of the embodiment of power.
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Lecuppre, G. (2020). “Introduction. Le rapt politique, acteurs chosifiés et fonctions magnifiées”. Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 39(1), 13-25. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/121024 (Original work published 2020)