Virgin bride

[walter18]

primae noctis is true

the knights and noblemen of the medieval time who have the right to sleep with virgin bride

 

The phrase prima nocta, based on the Latin “first night,” is a shortened and corrupted from jus primae noctis, “right of the first night.” It generally names an ancient tradition in which all noble lords, whether kings or dukes, had the right to have sex with any of their female subjects—regardless of their will and even with a virgin bride—on her wedding night.

One of the earliest first known references to this feudal, misogynistic tradition appears in the second-millennium BCE Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, though the term prima nocta itself isn’t used. It’s also mentioned, though again not as prima nocta, in the fifth-century BCE Histories by Ancient Greek historian Herodotus.

While there are many references to the custom throughout the centuries, scholars since the 1800s have questioned whether such a law ever truly existed or was practiced, with many believing it was simply a trope used to make rulers seem more barbaric. It it possible that prima nocta may have been real, and because its victims had no or low social status, the instances were never recorded. There’s also no clear-cut evidence that the phrase jus primae noctis was ever used as the formal name of any law.

A traditional phrase for prima nocta is the French droit du seigneur (“right of the lord”), but by the late 1800s, it was going by the Latin jus primae noctis, whose particular origins are unclear. It evolved to jus prima noctae by the 1900s and prima nocta by the end of the century. The phrase is not considered grammatically correct in Latin.

Prima nocta rose to prominence after it played a key role in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart. In the movie, prima nocta was used—just like scholars have noted—to make the film’s villains look even more cruel and dastardly. The use of prima nocta in the film was widely discussed as one of Braveheart‘s many historical inaccuracies.

Outside Braveheart, the sitcom The Office and the action film Avengers: Age of Ultron mention prima nocta. A version of the law also appears in the the popular HBO series Game of Thrones, though it is officially referred to as “first night.

Jus primae noctis (the right of the first night) or droit du seigneur (lord's right) is the alleged right of noblemen to have sex with peasant women, often on their wedding nights, particularly in medieval Europe.

A major douchebag move; The supposed right of the lord to take a newly married woman into his bed on her wedding night. and deflower the bride

 

[kiladi bullodu]

gp

[mustang302]

Ok