Raptus in the Mediaeval Period

The word raptus comes up when you're talking about a rape in the mediaeval period in latin. It's conceived of as an offence against the man whom the woman is seen as being under the power of. And ravishment would mean that they wereno what we would call sexually assaulted. Some canonists also want it to be that you can't marry a woman that you've ravished, because some people like Thomas aquinas don't care if she was abducted or not. The punishments are kind of laid down by lawyers for the church from the eleventh century onwards. So they say that you will be excommunicated and have sex fetters which means your every one will be