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The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit De Cuissage
(Paperback, 1998) Other Editions...

Author: Alain Boureau

This scholarly inquiry into the medieval concept of the "right of the first night", the right of a l...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0226067432
ISBN-13: 9780226067438
Sep 1998
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
272 pages
Language: English
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This scholarly inquiry into the medieval concept of the "right of the first night", the right of a lord or ruler to deflower a bride on her wedding night, sees it as a historical fiction but a fiction whose power derived from the fact that it was widely believed. Bourneau surveys the history and literature of the period and beyond and unravels many layers of meaning attached to this notion. He puts forth a thesis that it represented a contest between the church and state for control of the body.

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Length:272 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:15.2 oz

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"...[a] brilliant, learned and endlessly entertaining account of academic nonsense down the centuries...."
Times Literary Supplement - Peter Linehan (11/27/1998)


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