Unlike the miracle of the pregnant abbess, a cuckolded husband delivered of an unwanted child wasn’t included in medieval handbooks for preparing homilies. … Read the post the pregnant abbess, the nun of Watton, and cuckolded husbands
Men, understand the tales of William, Nastagio, and Federigo,from the fabliau Guillaume au Faucon and Decameron 5.8 & 5.9. Shun chivalric abasement. … Read the post William, Nastagio, Federigo: ignorant men in love
Humans have long been concerned about lying. Poetic deception, or whether poets are liars, depends on how and when poets recite their poems. … Read the post poetic deception: the truth about fictional lying
Trubert presents a sociopathic trickster carrying out random acts of violence. One trick assumes the medical superiority of an Oriental physician. … Read the post Trubert, 13th-century French fabliau, parodies Oriental physician
The fabliau The Peasant Doctor {Le Vilain Mire}, like the life of Saint Blaise, includes curing a young person with a fishbone stuck in the throat. … Read the post Le vilain mire fabliau parodied Saint Blaise’s fishbone cure