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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

Chastie musart

unpleasant truth: some persons prefer jerks in love

That women prefer jerks is proverbial, but men also love abusive women. Medieval literature documents that the human heart is crooked. … Read the post unpleasant truth: some persons prefer jerks in love

diverse tactics for lessening risk in criticizing women

To lessen risk in criticizing women, study tactics of the medieval Proverbia que dicuntur super natura feminarum and religiously invoke NAWALT. … Read the post diverse tactics for lessening risk in criticizing women

medieval men’s sexed protest against female sexual privilege

Economic inequality linked to female sexual privilege is the focal point of the men’s sexed protest of the 13th-century Old French Chastie musart. … Read the post medieval men’s sexed protest against female sexual privilege