While I was working on the documentation for my latest art work which contains an embroidered timeline of women’s rights, I was sure that in Spain and France during Medieval times there was an unwritten law that the lord of the land could rape the newlywed woman on the night of her marriage.
Turns out, because it was an unwritten law, it is contested by historians as hearsay and not an actual custom. They claim the law was to pay a money tax to the lord in order to get married and nothing else.
The only written document about this was a law given by the first king of Spain saying that lords were not allowed to rape newlywed peasant women. Apparently, the lords of the time claimed they never did that.
Three things:
- Women were not allowed education and the only ones who knew how to write, if any, were noble women or nuns. Therefore, anything which happened to women was transmitted oraly.
- All Catholic female saints ar part of stories of them running away from lords trying to rape them.
- Powerful men almost always abuse women. Proof the Epstein files which are being erased and burried under the ww3 as we speak.
Even if there was any written proof at the time, that can be easily destroied. What cannot be destroyed as easily is the collective oral memory, but in our current times it is being disregarded as unscientific, so there isn’t really a need ti destroy it anyway…
The joy of creating 