SewBlue on Nostr: npub1uxz06…35ma4 While I'm not nearly the expert, you're missing the class based ...
npub1uxz060za0sz7uzncy45jcksak2lr9wks0hrgug54cvpm9ma8agkqs35ma4 (npub1uxz…5ma4) While I'm not nearly the expert, you're missing the class based distinctions baked into the chivalric code. Not a legal code to my knowledge but a deeply influential one that did influence law.
Ladies, women of the nobility had to protected and rescued from harm, and treated politely. By contrast it was not rape to rape a peasant. The code only applied to women of your rank or higher.
Remember that when someone says they want a return of chivalry. That knight had the right to rape peasants. A land owner could sleep with peasant women he "owned" on their wedding night. That was as much a part of chivalry as holding the door open to your betters.
Ladies, women of the nobility had to protected and rescued from harm, and treated politely. By contrast it was not rape to rape a peasant. The code only applied to women of your rank or higher.
Remember that when someone says they want a return of chivalry. That knight had the right to rape peasants. A land owner could sleep with peasant women he "owned" on their wedding night. That was as much a part of chivalry as holding the door open to your betters.