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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
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castration culture

medieval education: teaching demonology of men’s sexuality

Egbert of Liège’s Well-Laden Ship {Fecunda Ratis} instructed 11th-century school boys in demonology of men’s sexuality. It urged silence & castration. … Read the post medieval education: teaching demonology of men’s sexuality

girdle of Venus for Architrenius: the cuckold in castration culture

Johannes de Hauvilla’s insightful medieval Latin satire Architrenius associated mother-prompted marriage and the girdle of Venus with castration culture. … Read the post girdle of Venus for Architrenius: the cuckold in castration culture

misandry & castration culture repress alternate lifestyles for men

Men seeking alternate lifestyles to escape from gynocentrism face misandry and castration culture as did Cistercian conversi in medieval Europe. … Read the post misandry & castration culture repress alternate lifestyles for men

castration culture promotes vicious, jealous eunuchs as officials

Gynocentric society supports castration culture and cadres of vicious, jealous eunuch officials like Eutropius in Constantinople in 399. … Read the post castration culture promotes vicious, jealous eunuchs as officials

naked ass-driver and ass from Octavian to Byzantium in 1204

Ass-driver and ass statues Octavian erected to memorialize his victory at Actium generated problems of prophetic meaning in Roman & Byzantine literature. … Read the post naked ass-driver and ass from Octavian to Byzantium in 1204

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