[Sca-cooks] period traditions

[Ted Eisenstein]

>Some of these traditions such as "droit de seigneur" where the lord
>got first dibs with the serf's bride on the wedding night are sometimes
>difficult for modern folks to understand or at least they wonder why
>it was allowed.

Errrr, it wasn't. Modern historical thinking suggests that droit de seigneur
didn't exist; it was a myth imposed on those times by later historians with
a bad attitude.

Alban