Were rapes common in the Middle Ages?

[PaleoEuropean]

"[A] highly fashionable myth, also closely connected with love, marriage, sexuality, and power in the Middle Ages, the lord’s privilege to take the virginity of the newly-wed bride, that is, to sleep with her in the first night after the marriage rituals have been completed."

Was mostly a Norman practice to take the virginity of the peasantries wives which really was short lived.

[Laly]

Was mostly a Norman practice to take the virginity of the peasantries wives which really was short lived.

The first text evoking that is indeed from Normandy, and it participated in the creation of the myth, but as the specialist of the subject Alain Boureau says, it’s just a satirical poem written by a monk of the Mont-Saint-Michel to discredit the lay lords, assigning to them fanciful rights.

https://actu.fr/normandie/caen_14118..._13580291.html

[Ruggery]

The first text evoking that is indeed from Normandy, and it participated in the creation of the myth, but as the specialist of the subject Alain Boureau says, it’s just a satirical poem written by a monk of the Mont-Saint-Michel to discredit the lay lords, assigning to them fanciful rights.

https://actu.fr/normandie/caen_14118..._13580291.html

So it was just a myth ?, the issue of virginity was something more important in the Middle Ages.

[Loki]

No, when Europe was thoroughly Christian it was a far more moral and respectful society, so rapes would have been far less. Our modern society is becoming more barbaric by the day.

[PaleoEuropean]

No, when Europe was thoroughly Christian it was a far more moral and respectful society, so rapes would have been far less. Our modern society is becoming more barbaric by the day.

Also justice was much more quick and severe if even you suspected or made an accusation you could have trial by combat.