In this article you will see the BBC in passing referring to 'droit de seigneur' as historical fact, when practically all scholars are agreed it is a relatively recent fiction.
This may just be laziness and ignorance, but I think it reflects something else: an assumption that those people back then, in medieval times when Christendom held sway, were ignorant, barbaric and hypocritical, while we today....
Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job
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Three things in particular caught my eye this morning. Two of them are
connected with each other and they ring of good common sense and faith.
The other...
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