True or False: Noblemen had the right to sleep with any woman on her wedding night
In medieval societies, noblemen and upper class men supposedly had the right to take the virginity of peasant women. This tradition has appeared in many works of fiction, including 1984, the Discworld series, and Gilgamesh. In the movie Braveheart, for example, the practice of jus primae noctis is used as way to “breed out” the…
