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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

Archpriest Talavera

The Archpriest of Talavera is the authorial voice within Alonso Martínez de Toledo’s book now known as The Archpriest of Talavera. It’s alternate titled Corbacho o Reprobación del amor mundano. That book was written in Spanish and finished in 1438. It’s a seminal work in the literature of men’s sexed protest.

gestural philology of palm-inward v-sign

Gestural philology reveals that pioneering twelfth-century author Marie de France stimulated the palm-inward v-sign in the Archpriest of Talavera’s work. … Read the post gestural philology of palm-inward v-sign

the Archpriest of Talavera on women and violence against men

Humankind’s best hope for lessening violence against men is to study the blunt, lusty, irreverently truthtelling Archpriest of Talavera. Women are key. … Read the post the Archpriest of Talavera on women and violence against men

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