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loa_in_
on Feb 23, 2022
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Kissing in the Middle Ages
I made it halfway through the article but I couldn't stand it interpreting all instances of "kiss" as kiss on the mouth. Kisses on the cheek would just as well be written down as simply kisses.
scintill76
on Feb 23, 2022
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Do you have specific linguistic and cultural knowledge of that? It doesn’t seem so obvious to me (a layman).
loa_in_
on March 5, 2022
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No
ksdale
on Feb 23, 2022
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Or perhaps a kiss on the cheek wouldn't even register as a kiss and would be recorded as a greeting instead?
quantified
on Feb 24, 2022
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It would be worth another 300 or so words to clarify how good the medievalist knowledge is of kiss targets.
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