Annabel’s Reviews > The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat > Status Update

Devastating knowing how few protections there were for women. The acts which made a knight honorable or dishonorable, were closely related to the status of those they interacted with, and how they and their victims were perceived. It’s heartbreaking.

“So if in theory rape was a serious crime for which the law provided heavy penalties, in practice it often went unpunished, unprosecuted, and even unreported.”