
The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process
my article on the chastity belt depended largely on Classen's research....
Conrad Kyeser was the first to present an image of a chastity belt in his illustrated book on war machinery, Bellifortis (1405), and some fifteenth- and sixteenth-century poets and artists referred to this object as well. Yet, there is no firm evidence that chastity belts were ever used in reality. By contrast, modern writers have often referred to the chastity belt as an object employed primarily in the Middle Ages in order to support a highly speculative perspective of past practices, maybe as a spurious legitimation for...
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my article on the chastity belt depended largely on Classen's research. I'd love to read his full investigation at some point.