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If there are prostitutes in all of Westeros and the Meñique brothels are the best, a good part of the cities of the Iberian Peninsula had these establishments at the end of the Middle Ages, although it was the “red light district” of Valencia that attracted the most attention. foreigners from beyond the Pyrenees due to its large size. If Robert Baratheon had bastard children, Henry II of Castile had at least Jon Nieve's banquet companions tell bedtime anecdotes, just as the Castilian spinners of the first half of the th century did during their working hours. The Dothraquis and Dornishmen are said to copulate with cattle, as were the th-century Navarrese according to the Codex Calixtinus . The most repeated insult towards women in the saga is “whore”, just like in th century Castile where there were several ways to express it. If Genna Lannister plays obscene jokes and the brothers of the Night's Watch sing indecent songs, we must not forget that Alfonso the author of a composition that begins like this: “The other day I went to put my hand on a soldier's pussy.” medieval homosexuality The tightening of punitive legislation and negative representations of homosexuality, such as the one in this codex, may be a clue to the extent of these sexual habits in the European Middle Ages.
The reasonable similarities do not stop here but continue in more striking issues that have even been criticized. One of them is the age of the protagonists and, therefore, at what age Western society sees it as normal for them to begin having sexual relations. Daenerys gets married at the age of while Sansa gets married a month before her birthday. In medieval Castile, Blanca de Borbón married Pedro I the Cruel in at the age of B2B Email List thirteen and a half, and Constanza of Portugal did so in at the age of years and fifteen days. Canon Law established the legal age for marriage at years for women and for men. Furthermore, and as also occurs in the saga, it was mandatory that the union be consummated sexually for it to be indissoluble. The lack of privacy in homes, wedding rites and observation of animal behavior meant that medieval children reached puberty with much more practical knowledge than today. Hence, at years old, Jon Snow does not seem surprised to hear bed anecdotes, Myranda Royce freely recounts her sexual life to a -year-old Sansa, and her brother Bran, who is seven, knows perfectly well what intercourse is. . medieval sex The medieval French manuscript Roman de la Rose offers us a series of satirical images in which nuns and priests are shown in sexual attitudes, such as in this one, in which a nun leads the priest with a rope tied to her genitals.
Homosexuality is also a topic whose treatment has surprised . This mixture of permissiveness and social contempt, together with the morality of the Faith of the Seven that condemns such acts but that no one respects on this and other issues, is very reminiscent of the situation that homosexuals experienced during the th century and part of the th century. outside the Iberian Peninsula. Loras and Renly would probably have envied Rudolph, bishop of Tours, and his lover, John, bishop of Orleans between the th and th centuries. Her sex life was public, so much so that Juan's promiscuity earned her the nickname Flora, the same name as a famous courtesan of the time. And at no time did any of this force them to depart from their ecclesiastical positions. Ellaria Arena, the television show Yara, or Taena Merryweater compete in the medieval world with two anonymous Bavarian nuns who in a letter admit that they miss their kisses and caresses on their breasts.
The reasonable similarities do not stop here but continue in more striking issues that have even been criticized. One of them is the age of the protagonists and, therefore, at what age Western society sees it as normal for them to begin having sexual relations. Daenerys gets married at the age of while Sansa gets married a month before her birthday. In medieval Castile, Blanca de Borbón married Pedro I the Cruel in at the age of B2B Email List thirteen and a half, and Constanza of Portugal did so in at the age of years and fifteen days. Canon Law established the legal age for marriage at years for women and for men. Furthermore, and as also occurs in the saga, it was mandatory that the union be consummated sexually for it to be indissoluble. The lack of privacy in homes, wedding rites and observation of animal behavior meant that medieval children reached puberty with much more practical knowledge than today. Hence, at years old, Jon Snow does not seem surprised to hear bed anecdotes, Myranda Royce freely recounts her sexual life to a -year-old Sansa, and her brother Bran, who is seven, knows perfectly well what intercourse is. . medieval sex The medieval French manuscript Roman de la Rose offers us a series of satirical images in which nuns and priests are shown in sexual attitudes, such as in this one, in which a nun leads the priest with a rope tied to her genitals.
Homosexuality is also a topic whose treatment has surprised . This mixture of permissiveness and social contempt, together with the morality of the Faith of the Seven that condemns such acts but that no one respects on this and other issues, is very reminiscent of the situation that homosexuals experienced during the th century and part of the th century. outside the Iberian Peninsula. Loras and Renly would probably have envied Rudolph, bishop of Tours, and his lover, John, bishop of Orleans between the th and th centuries. Her sex life was public, so much so that Juan's promiscuity earned her the nickname Flora, the same name as a famous courtesan of the time. And at no time did any of this force them to depart from their ecclesiastical positions. Ellaria Arena, the television show Yara, or Taena Merryweater compete in the medieval world with two anonymous Bavarian nuns who in a letter admit that they miss their kisses and caresses on their breasts.