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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

Chrétien de Troyes

girl revived naked, sleeping Yvain with non-consensual full body massage

In Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain: The Knight with the Lion, a girl with complex, ambiguous motives non-consensually massaged the sleeping, naked Yvain and healed him. … Read the post girl revived naked, sleeping Yvain with non-consensual full body massage

Yvain & Gawain: men fighting for women should talk with each other

In Chrétien de Troyes’ 12th-century Arthurian romance Yvain: The Knight with the Lion, two sisters disputed their inheritance and had Yvain & Gwain fight for them. … Read the post Yvain & Gawain: men fighting for women should talk with each other

fake rape: Lancelot as tool for the amorous girl's fantasy

The story of Lancelot being duped by the amorous girl’s rape fantasy points to the end state of cultures unwilling to address adequately fake rape. … Read the post fake rape: Lancelot as tool for the amorous girl's fantasy

rescued Lancelot hinted at men’s resistance to love servitude

Chrétien de Troyes’s 12th-century Arthurian romance Lancelot hints that men resisted love servitude to women with standard tactics of subordinates. … Read the post rescued Lancelot hinted at men’s resistance to love servitude

internal monologues of Chrétien de Troyes and Walter Map

Comparison of internal monologues in Chrétien’s Lancelot and Walter’s tale of Sadius and Galo with respect to the development of Arthurian romance. … Read the post internal monologues of Chrétien de Troyes and Walter Map

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