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....
Daily Rome Shot 1384 – Procession
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The day after the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul is, traditionally, the
Commemoration of St. Paul (since Peter gets most of the attention on the
29th). It i...
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