Genre et discours pénal : la bigamie dans la doctrine juridique européenne de l’époque moderne (XVI-XVIIIe siècle)

This study attempts to trace the evolution of European criminal doctrine (Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, France) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in relation to the crime of bigamy, which seemed relevant for a study of legal discourse from a gender perspective. The legal exist...

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Main Author: Tanguy Le Marc’hadour
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Language:English
Published: Criminocorpus 2025-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/17221
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description This study attempts to trace the evolution of European criminal doctrine (Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, France) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in relation to the crime of bigamy, which seemed relevant for a study of legal discourse from a gender perspective. The legal existence of the crime of bigamy, hitherto little studied, depends mainly on doctrinal writings, and the study seeks to identify the differences in the discourse concerning men and women. It shows that the two different criminal qualifications for women and men found in the Roman texts were transformed by doctrine into a single, sexually undifferentiated offence in the modern period, while paradoxically maintaining a gendered apprehension in the degree of repression, in accordance with the expected social roles of women and men.
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Genre et discours pénal : la bigamie dans la doctrine juridique européenne de l’époque moderne (XVI-XVIIIe siècle)
Criminocorpus
bigamy
criminal doctrine
modern period
Ancien Régime criminal law
title Genre et discours pénal : la bigamie dans la doctrine juridique européenne de l’époque moderne (XVI-XVIIIe siècle)
title_full Genre et discours pénal : la bigamie dans la doctrine juridique européenne de l’époque moderne (XVI-XVIIIe siècle)
title_fullStr Genre et discours pénal : la bigamie dans la doctrine juridique européenne de l’époque moderne (XVI-XVIIIe siècle)
title_full_unstemmed Genre et discours pénal : la bigamie dans la doctrine juridique européenne de l’époque moderne (XVI-XVIIIe siècle)
title_short Genre et discours pénal : la bigamie dans la doctrine juridique européenne de l’époque moderne (XVI-XVIIIe siècle)
title_sort genre et discours penal la bigamie dans la doctrine juridique europeenne de l epoque moderne xvi xviiie siecle
topic bigamy
criminal doctrine
modern period
Ancien Régime criminal law
url https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/17221
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