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The aim of this article is to reveal examples of battered women that abound in Catalan documentation from the Late Middle Ages. These women of all ages suffered humiliation and physical abuse of parents, grandparents, husbands, etc. It is paid special attention to judicial documentation and notary requirements in order to study not only the examples of the abuse they suffered, but also the attitudes that these women adopted against such violence. Through the different stages of women's lives, it is analyzed the circumstances of the abuse suffered: from betrothal and forced marriages to widowhood and remarriage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The accusations against the mothers who forced their own daughters to prostitution serve to illustrate a form of violence that supposes, among other things, a break of maternal love. The general context in which the cases were developed was the precarious situation of mothers and the difficulties after the death of their husbands - the great part of cases have widows as protagonist-. The history of these women represents a wrong exercise of mother's authority and violence towards daughters; a violence typology not always physical, but also emotional and psychological. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...