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Alain Boureau
310 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226067421
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 September 1998
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From the late Middle Ages to The Marriage of Figaro to Mel Gibson's Braveheart, the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been the droit de cuissage, or right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of a vassal on her wedding night. The droit d...
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Alain Boureau
310 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226067421
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 September 1998
Description
From the late Middle Ages to The Marriage of Figaro to Mel Gibson's Braveheart, the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been the droit de cuissage, or right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of a vassal on her wedding night. The droit d...