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The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process

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Author(s): Albrecht Classen (auth.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2007

Language: English
Tags: Gender Studies; Ancient History; Social History; Cultural History; Medieval Literature; History of Medieval Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-6
The Chastity Belt: Fiction and Truth According to Scholarship and Popular Opinion. A Case Study of the History of Myth-Making: Introduction....Pages 7-61
Modern and Medieval Myth-Making....Pages 63-146
Another Myth: the Jus Primae Noctis, or the Droit Du Cuissage (Droit Du Seigneur)....Pages 147-154
The Nature of Myths Revisited....Pages 155-156
Back Matter....Pages 157-222