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greenhill · « **Reply #1 on:** November 08, 2009, 01:07:42 PM »

I was told that most peasant women were not virgins when they were married because the man had to make sure that the woman was fertile to provide insurance for old age

Also that there were convents just for the daughters of impoverished aristocrats who could not provide dowries, and the nuns had servants.

Is this just protestant propaganda?

Telesphorus · « **Reply #2 on:** November 08, 2009, 01:12:49 PM »

Quote from: greenhill

I was told that most peasant women were not virgins when they were married because the man had to make sure that the woman was fertile to provide insurance for old age

Also that there were convents just for the daughters of impoverished aristocrats who could not provide dowries, and the nuns had servants.

Is this just protestant propaganda?

I wouldn't believe anything written by social historians of that era unless you can examine their sources yourself.

greenhill · « **Reply #3 on:** November 08, 2009, 02:40:56 PM »

I think you have a point.

We were taught all sorts of rubbish about the corruption and decay of the Church which led to popular enthusiasm for the "Reformation" in England.

That has been nicely debunked by Eamon Duffy.

Jamie · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2009, 02:41:38 AM »

You might also like these two articles which refute more "academic" errors about the Middle Ages.

Top 10 Reasons the Dark Ages Weren't Dark

Top 10 Myths About The Middle Ages

Belloc · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2009, 08:02:54 AM »

a lot of times modern thinking was induced by Prots, who view the end of the Apostolic age and fall of Rome=dark ages, until of course, Luther.....

Author Topic: Life in the 1500&#039;s -- debunked (Read 737 times)

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