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....
News of the Church 17 – 27 July 2025
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It’s 27 July 2025 and it is the 7th Sunday after Pentecost. A couple years
ago, I saw a movie called News of the World with Tom Hanks as a former
confedera...
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