@Miserys_End Well where's your proof then? The historical record has been showing time and again that the references to primae noctis are largely made up, such as by Hector Boece, or primarily in mythology like the Epic of Gilgamesh. And this has been proven by historians searching hard for evidence of primae noctis as a practice, not trying to bury it. The only references found in records kept on serfs from the medieval to renaissance age were that of a marriage tax or permit along with a fee to the church for allowing the couple to skip a waiting period to have sex. We're talking about a time period where some areas decided that hanging women would disgrace them since not all wore underwear and the kicking involved would expose their genitals, so burying alive was the capital punishment instead. You think such a society would just roll over and accept rape as law without any massive uprisings?
And that's without going into the inanity of enacting into law rape, when a nobleman who wants to abuse his peasants could just show up and do it law or not, "Hey you there with the horse shit smeared about your face, no not you, the one next to you, yea I think that's hot. Spread em or die."
And it'd require ignoring that feudal society was held together by relationships with serfs and vassals, that a lord's soldiers would have to be conscripted from people whose wives he has raped or would rape, and thus surrounding himself with angry men with weapons that he's essentially cucked.
Also let's not forget that peasant women aren't exactly hot and lusty like erotic novels depict them as; nobles throughout the period saw them as lower class and peasants are literally covered with shit from livestock half the time and the remaining half is mud from working the fields, with the build and skin of someone working the fields, not exactly a sexy time.
Louis Veuillot, a 19th century historian notes that, "Nothing, absolutely nothing, in the archives of Justice authorizes us to say that our forefathers ever made a
crime into a law. If we search the evidence and the literature we find the same silence everywhere. The Middle Ages had never heard of the droit du seigneur." should sum it up perfectly.
Additionally what has been found is the fault mostly lies with the Enlightenment philosophers such as Voltaire who exaggerated the oppression of the serfs and peasantry and charged the nobility and clergy with not only droit du seigneur but also the "right of lounging" and the right to use a peasant's entrails to warm their feet. You want to talk about history being written by those in control, the only accusations of primae noctis had been by Enlightenment scholars while they were in control of the written media.
On a side note, rape is rape no matter what you call it.
No where did I say that rape is not rape, I pointed out that the representative listed them separately likely cause she saw it differently occuring, don't try to misrepresent what I wrote.
