Codpiece: References & Edit History

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Article title updated for style. Nov 08, 2026
Add new Web site: International Journal of Urologic History - A Knight�s Thrust: Was the Use of a Codpiece for Protection or for Exertion of Masculinity? An Evaluation through History and its Reemergence in Modern Times (PDF). Feb 20, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - The codpiece: social fashion or medical need? (PDF). Dec 24, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC - How the codpiece flopped. Jun 11, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Cambridge - What goes up must come down: a brief history of the codpiece. Mar 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Art UK - A closer look at codpieces: the swagger and thrust of sixteenth-century men's fashion. Nov 24, 2023
Media added. Jan 04, 2021
Add new Web site: Elizabethan Era - Codpiece. Dec 25, 2013
Article revised and updated. Jun 28, 2012
Article revised and updated. Oct 15, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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