Authors from Jerome to Dante recognized men’s ardent sexual desire for women. The example and hymns of Thomas Aquinas offered hope for a fuller life. … Read the post Jerome to Dante: men’s ardent sexual desire for women
Medieval Christians understood Mary the mother of Jesus to be an unfailing advocate for equity under law, even for men facing penal injustice. … Read the post Mary merciful, unfailing advocate for medieval Christians
Dante put troubadour / bishop Folquet de Marseille (Folco) in paradise’s third sphere of Venus & lovers. Rahab the prostitute was the brightest star there. … Read the post Dante’s Folquet de Marseille praised Rahab in paradise
Dante, Purgatorio c. 25, cites Summae Deus clementiae, but in its struggle to forgive men’s lust, it’s more closely related to Jacob wrestling at Peniel. … Read the post Dante in ring of lust saw men being purified of their sexual sins
Dante Alighieri and Leonardo da Vinci recognized that the center of a man’s earthly being is his penis and that castration is satanic. … Read the post castration is Satanic: penis at center of man’s earthly being