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....
Where is Your Line?
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CP&S comment – This is an excellent question we should all ask ourselves in
this day and age when our Catholic Faith is being constantly challenged. It
is ...
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