Geoffrey de la Tour Landry taught his daughters mythic gender equality in guile with the story of a ropemaker, his wife, a prior, and a bawd. … Read the post mis-educating daughters with mythic gender equality in guile
A 14th-century popular story of a hermit’s vision of judgment and punishment parallels the visionary realism of Dante’s highly literary Commedia. … Read the post realism of judgment & punishment in popular 14th-century vision
In a book he wrote for his daughters, the medieval knight Geoffrey de La Tour Landry used biblical stories to to teach concern for violence against men. … Read the post medieval knight taught his daughters concern for violence against men
The fatherless younger Boucicaut, Jean II Le Maingre, spent his life as a benighted knight in abject service to women and in brutal fighting with men. … Read the post knight Boucicaut lost woman-savy father & spent life fighting men
The medieval nobleman and knight Sir Geoffrey de La Tour Landry instructed men to refuse to become intimately involved with women who joke about imprisoning men. … Read the post joking about imprisoning man shows woman’s bad character