Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor, a book talk by Sara McDougall

Join Medieval Studies for a book talk by Dr. Sara McDougall on her new book "Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor." Dr. McDougall is professor of history at John Jay College of the City University of New York and is on the faculty in Biography and Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. “Justice for Jehanne is an impressively researched and beautifully written recovered history of a medieval woman’s life as seen through the prism of the very worst thing that happened to her. In reconstructing Jehanne’s sexual assault, its investigation, and the community response, McDougall upends what we think we know about the mores and morals of the fifteenth century as well as our current age.”—Sarah Weinman, author of Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime “Combining the best traditions of rigorous historical inquiry with the drama of true crime, McDougall pulls us into a story that she ultimately reveals as not monstrous, not somehow remote, but fundamentally human—messy, sometimes horrific, sometimes kind, but always human.”—David M. Perry, coauthor of The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe