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The Lord's First Night : The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage Book

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The Lord's First Night : The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage, From the late Middle Ages to The Marriage of Figaro to Mel Gibson's Braveheart, the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been thedroit de cuissage, or right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of a vassal on her wedding night., The Lord's First Night : The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage
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  • The Lord's First Night : The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage
  • Written by author Alain Boureau, Lydia G. Cochrane
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, 1998/09/17
  • From the late Middle Ages to The Marriage of Figaro to Mel Gibson's Braveheart, the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been thedroit de cuissage, or right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of a vassal on her wedding night.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
1 Remnants and Persistences 7
2 The Droit de Cuissage in the Corridors of History (1789-1854) 40
3 The Great Dispute of 1854-82: The Droit de Cuissage and the Invention of the Middle Ages 67
4 Seventy-two Proofs 92
5 The Body and the Land 119
6 The Ecclesiastical Droit de Cuissage 155
7 The Politics of Cuissage: The Social Uses of Persiflage 192
Epilogue 225
App. 1 A Literary Setting of Seigniorial Sexual Abuse 233
App. 2 The Droit de Cuissage in Spain: A Response to Carlos Barros 237
Notes 243
Glossary 269
Chronological Bibliography of Works and Documents Relating to the Droit de Cuissage 277
Index 289


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