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A medieval Sardinian law let women refuse forced marriages

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While medieval men were busy jousting and dying of the plague, a Sardinian leader named Eleanor was drafting the Carta de Logu. Enacted in 1392, her legal code revolutionized justice by letting women refuse to marry their rapists—a concept wildly ahead of its time. It was so remarkably effective that Sardinia kept her laws on the books until 1827.

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