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The medieval chastity belt : a myth-making process / Albrecht Classen.
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View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Classen, Albrecht.
- Series:
- New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- The new Middle Ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chastity belts--History.
- Chastity belts.
- Chastity belts--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1 The Chastity Belt: Fiction and Truth According to Scholarship and Popular Opinion. A Case Study of the History of Myth-Making: Introduction 7
- 2 Modern and Medieval Myth-Making 63
- 3 Another Myth: The Jus primae noctis, or the Droit du cuissage (Droit du seigneur) 147
- 4 The Nature of Myths Revisited 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403975582
- 9781403975584
- OCLC:
- 78072568
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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