The Lord's First Night

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Remnants and Persistences
2: The Droit de Cuissage in the Corridors of History (1789-1854)
3: The Great Dispute of 1854-82: The Droit de Cuissage and the Invention of the Middle Ages
4: Seventy-two Proofs
5: The Body and the Land
6: The Ecclesiastical Droit de Cuissage
7: The Politics of Cuissage: The Social Uses of Persiflage
Epilogue
App. 1: A Literary Setting of Seigniorial Sexual Abuse
App. 2: The Droit de Cuissage in Spain: A Response to Carlos Barros
Notes
Glossary
Chronological Bibliography of Works and Documents Relating to the Droit de Cuissage
Index