63] _Rhein. Mus._, 1829, 281.

[1364] II, c. XXVII, qu. 2, and c. XXXIV.

[1365] Friedberg, 98.

[1366] _Ibid._, 39.

[1367] Wilkins, _Concilia_, I, 478.

[1368] _Hist. Eng. Law_, I, 109; II, 365.

[1369] Surtees Soc., _Man. et Pont. Ecc. Ebor._, 157, and App.
17.

[1370] Wilkins, I, 668, 690.

[1371] Friedberg, 79.

[1372] _Nibelungen_, 568-597.

[1373] Weinhold, _D. F._, I, 373.

[1374] _Trauung und Verlobung_, 37.

[1375] _Verlobung und Trauung_, 23.

[1376] Friedberg, 90.

[1377] Hagelstange, _Bauernleben im M. A._, 61.

[1378] Friedberg, 85; cf. Weinhold, _D. F._, I, 378; Grimm, _D.
R. A._, 436.

[1379] Lecky, _Eur. Morals_, II, 347.

CHAPTER XI

THE SOCIAL CODES

Specification of the subject.--Meaning of "immoral."--Natural
functions.--The current code and character.--Definitions of
chastity, decency, propriety, etc.--Chastity.--Pagan life
policy.--Modesty and shame.--The line of decency in dress.--
Present conventional limits of decency.--Decency and vanity.--
Modesty is the opposite of impudence.--Shame.--The first
attachments to the body.--The fear of sorcery.--What functions
should be concealed.--Restraint of expression within limits.--
Violation of rule.--The suspensorium.--The girdle and what it
conceals.--Modesty and decency not primitive.--What parts of
the body are tabooed?--Notion of decency lacking.--Dress and
decency.--Ornament and simplest dress.--The evolution of
dress.--Men dressed; women not.--Dress for other purposes than
decency; excessive modesty.--Contrasted standards of decency.--
Standards of decency as to natural functions, etc.--Bathing;
customs of nudity.--Bathing in rivers, springs, and public bath
houses.--Nudity.--Alleged motives of concealment taboo.--
Obscenity.--Obscene representations for magic.--Infibulation.--
Was the phallus offensive?--Phallus as amulet.--Symbols in
Asia.--The notion of obscenity is modern.--Propriety.--
Seclusion of women.--Customs of propriety.--Moslem rules of
propriety.--Hatless women.--Rules of propriety.--Hindoo ritual
of the toilet, etc.--Greek rules of propriety.--Erasmus's
rules.--Eating.--Kissing.--Politeness, etiquette, manners.--
Good manners.--Etiquette of salutation, etc.--Literature of
manners and etiquette.--Honor, seemliness