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Highlights

  • 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

Boethius

Boethius’s wife Rusticiana sought to bring him true happiness

Despite Boethius’s philandering and excessive work and study, his learned wife Rusticiana came to his prison to save him as Lady Philosophy. … Read the post Boethius’s wife Rusticiana sought to bring him true happiness

Dante’s Boethius buried in Boccaccio’s Decameron X.9

In Decameron X.9, Boccaccio responded to Dante with vision of true consolation of Lady Philosophy: personally loving, virtuous action in worldly living. … Read the post Dante’s Boethius buried in Boccaccio’s Decameron X.9

Maximianus lacked consolation of Lady Philosophy & Boethius

Unlike Lady Philosophy taking Boethius home, Maximianus through a series of demoralizing sexual relationships aged into a bitter old man. … Read the post Maximianus lacked consolation of Lady Philosophy & Boethius

Hildebert of Lavardin on woman’s role in the pursuit of death

Hildebert of Lavardin warned that the woman-spirit’s domination of man leads to “shameful and ridiculous appetites for death.” … Read the post Hildebert of Lavardin on woman’s role in the pursuit of death

Lady Philosophy and man blindness in Boethius’s Consolation

Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, full of poetry and rhetorical intrigue, leads Boethius to remembering his personal virility with Lady Philosophy. … Read the post Lady Philosophy and man blindness in Boethius’s Consolation