About the year 1160, terrible events occurred at the Gilbertine monastery in Watton: a nun of Watton was seduced, and a lay brother castrated. … Read the post Nun of Watton: judging seduction and castration
Two Old French works, the fabliau The Fisherman of Pont-sur-Seine and the lai Lecheor, together demean men’s persons to a vagina-directed penis. … Read the post Fisherman of Pont-sur-Seine and Lecheor demean men’s persons
The story of Aziz and Aziza from the Arabian Nights outrageously re-arranges the romance of Daphnis and Chloe from an ancient Greek novel. … Read the post Aziz and Aziza in love with Daphnis and Chloe