Studies of the Origins and Application of English Law Governing Charges of Rape (Raptus)
Carpenter, Christine. “Law, Justice and Landowners in Late Medieval England.” Law and History Review. 1 (1993): 205-37.
--------. “Sir Thomas Malory and Fifteenth-Century Local Politics.” Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 53 (1980) 31-43.
Post, J.B. “Ravishment of Women and the Statutes of Westminster.” Legal Records and the Historian: Papers presented to the Cambridge Legal History Conference, 7-10 July, 1975 and in Lincoln’s Inn Old Hall on 3 July 1974. Ed. J.H. Baker. London: Royal Historical Society, 1978.
--------. “Sir Thomas West and the Statute of Rapes, 1382.” Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London 53 (1980) 24-30.
Note: Carpenter summarized Post's research and applies it to C15 cases involving charges of "raptus."