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So, early 16th century Denmark, on the cutting edge of the Reformation. Noble maidens are getting married in their late teens or so; noble men in their 30s. My question: during their hormonal teens and twenties, are these "noble and wellborn knights":
a) living like proverbial monks(1)
b) sublimating their frustrations into politics and war
c) visiting those women about town who by law have to wear red hoods
d) visiting other lower class women(2)
e) visiting other lower class men
f) visiting their unmarried female friends and promising to be really really careful(3)
g) visiting their married female friends(4)
h) visiting their male friends
i) other ____________
Yes, obviously, "all of the above"; but I'm wondering about percentages here. If Alfred Kinsey had a time machine and a good working knowledge of late medieval Danish, what book would he be writing?
(On the plus side, it's also the start of the Little Ice Age, so there's a plentiful supply of cold water.)
(1) I have my suspicions about literal monks.
(2) King Christian I and Dyveke. Søren Norby and his long-term not-wife, IIRC. And come to think of it, Lady Inger of Austratt's husband had an illegitimate son, mother unknown to me.
(3) I know of at least two cases of this one: in one they desperately wanted to marry but fell within the proscribed bounds of consanguinity, leading to scandal and hisexecution... accidental death... murder... well, he ended up dead; in the other he offered to marry her but her outraged father refused, leading to scandal, his exile, and her immuration. The 16th century has the best scandals; see also (4).
(4) Bishop Stygge Krumpen in Børglum lived openly with the married Elsebeth Gyldenstjerne at the monastery in Børglum. See also (1).
So, early 16th century Denmark, on the cutting edge of the Reformation. Noble maidens are getting married in their late teens or so; noble men in their 30s. My question: during their hormonal teens and twenties, are these "noble and wellborn knights":
a) living like proverbial monks(1)
b) sublimating their frustrations into politics and war
c) visiting those women about town who by law have to wear red hoods
d) visiting other lower class women(2)
e) visiting other lower class men
f) visiting their unmarried female friends and promising to be really really careful(3)
g) visiting their married female friends(4)
h) visiting their male friends
i) other ____________
Yes, obviously, "all of the above"; but I'm wondering about percentages here. If Alfred Kinsey had a time machine and a good working knowledge of late medieval Danish, what book would he be writing?
(On the plus side, it's also the start of the Little Ice Age, so there's a plentiful supply of cold water.)
(1) I have my suspicions about literal monks.
(2) King Christian I and Dyveke. Søren Norby and his long-term not-wife, IIRC. And come to think of it, Lady Inger of Austratt's husband had an illegitimate son, mother unknown to me.
(3) I know of at least two cases of this one: in one they desperately wanted to marry but fell within the proscribed bounds of consanguinity, leading to scandal and his
(4) Bishop Stygge Krumpen in Børglum lived openly with the married Elsebeth Gyldenstjerne at the monastery in Børglum. See also (1).
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ARBITRARY STATISTICS YAY!
Date: 2008-03-27 11:59 am (UTC)lower class menand his good friend the Mme Valmont, whilst also enjoying the machinations of psychological and physical violence; his comrade (yes I am shamelessly mixing everything, shush) the Custard Danish is a chaste and god-fearing man until his eventual marriage (blowjobs from the servants don't count), and Chocolate Danish--mmm....chocolate danish........
Okay, as an arbitrary guess so I can stop memorising the influences at a norepinephrine synapse for a while, I choose:
Monks: 10%
Sublimate: 50%, overlapping to various degree with many of the following categories
Negotiable virtue: 40%
Low women: 50% (high comorbidity with hookers, but not complete overlap, because they're gonna have different ideas on, you know, whether they can afford it)
Low men: 10%
Unmarried women: 30%
Married women: 20%
Men: 40% BUT IT IS PURELY INNOCENT HONEST GUV
Warhorses: shush, Virgil, we promised we'd never speak of that.
Also, Alfred Kinsey would be writing, "How to Inve$t in Danish industrie for the purpo$e$ of greate proƒit". Or. Um. Maybe it's L-DOPA time again.
(You want to learn about how to derive serotonin from tryptophan? I promise it's interesting. Except for the part where it's not, really, but I'm not allowed to write more fanfic in Maori until after my neuro test.)