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Highlights

  • 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

Latin comedy

De Paulino et Polla: context for Chaucer’s Reeve’s Prologue

Richard of Venosa’s De Paulino et Polla depicts an old man’s sexual infirmity. It’s relevant to Oswald the Reeve’s Prologue in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. … Read the post De Paulino et Polla: context for Chaucer’s Reeve’s Prologue

Pamphilus, Gliscerium et Birria shows courtly lover’s folly

The 12th-century Latin comedy Pamphilus, Gliscerium et Birria thrusts the courtly lover Pamphilus into parody and Christian mud. … Read the post Pamphilus, Gliscerium et Birria shows courtly lover’s folly

De uxore cerdonis depicts beautiful & violent medieval woman

The 13th-century Latin comedy De uxore cerdonis mixes conventional beauty rhetoric and earthly violent realism in depicting a workman’s wife. … Read the post De uxore cerdonis depicts beautiful & violent medieval woman

Baucis et Traso: can’t make a whore into a virgin

The medieval Latin comedy Baucis et Traso indicates you can’t turn a whore into a virgin. It anticipated the rap claim “can’t turn a ho into a housewife.” … Read the post Baucis et Traso: can’t make a whore into a virgin

domineering, barking wives not worth their wealth in Plautus’s plays

In Plautus’s plays, Roman men worried about wives’ spending, but avoided marrying wealthy women for fear they would become domineering, barking wives. … Read the post domineering, barking wives not worth their wealth in Plautus’s plays

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