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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
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

Christine de Pizan

the loneliness of Christine de Pizan in narrow-mindedness

When her husband Etienne du Castel died, Christine de Pizan wrote of loneliness. Lessening loneliness requires overcoming narrow-mindedness. … Read the post the loneliness of Christine de Pizan in narrow-mindedness

medieval feminine power: divine to demonic in elite discourse

Feminine power, the Citi exhibit at the British Museum, shows Christine’s Livre de la Cité des Dames to be wholly rhetorical, as Henry Adams understood. … Read the post medieval feminine power: divine to demonic in elite discourse

women-fairies in the madness of Le Jeu de la feuillée

Le Jeu de la feuillée depicts men of Arras as betrayers, brutes, idiots & frauds. A woman-fairy in this medieval play saves men’s self-esteem. … Read the post women-fairies in the madness of Le Jeu de la feuillée

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

the unbelievable anti-meninism of today’s elite literary scholars

Academic literary studies is very hostile to non-feminist approaches and rife with anti-meninism. Beware! Look for imagination & creativity elsewhere. … Read the post the unbelievable anti-meninism of today’s elite literary scholars

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