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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
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Goscelin of Saint-Bertin

great Saint Alexander Akimetes’s wicked rationalizing

Saint Alexander Akimetes as an anchorite reportedly raised a baby girl, got her pregnant, and then murdered her, but eventually received her forgiveness. … Read the post great Saint Alexander Akimetes’s wicked rationalizing

Goscelin and Eve’s love was filled with Christian understanding

In his Liber confortatorius, the medieval monk Goscelin wrote about his Christian love and longing for the nun Eve, his student at Wilton Abbey. … Read the post Goscelin and Eve’s love was filled with Christian understanding

virgin in brothel won double crown with transvestite martyr

Adapting Ambrose’s story of the Antioch virgin-martyr, Goscelin made a girlish boy into the transvestite rescuer in the brothel. … Read the post virgin in brothel won double crown with transvestite martyr

bowel miracle of Saint Edith exposed thief

Goscelin’s Vita & Translatio of tenth-century saint Edith of Wilton describes miracles for bowel movements without any medieval sense of stench. … Read the post bowel miracle of Saint Edith exposed thief