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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
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

Libro de buen amor

transcending legal constraints to meet men’s sexual needs

Medieval literature shows that individual women are capable of meeting men’s sexual needs and showing concern for men’s health and well-being. … Read the post transcending legal constraints to meet men’s sexual needs

two lazy suitors compete in laziness to marry a lady

Libro de buen amor mocks men’s crazy worldly woman-service with its story of two lazy suitors competing in laziness to marry a lady. … Read the post two lazy suitors compete in laziness to marry a lady

sexual innuendo: rising for marriage in Libro de buen amor

Libro de buen amor’s broad, dialectical vision of love is filled with sexual innuendo amid yearning for marriage. … Read the post sexual innuendo: rising for marriage in Libro de buen amor

culturally hybrid literature in medieval Europe

Libro de buen amor and Solomon and Marcolf are hybrid literature in structure and content across Hebrew/Arabic and Christian European literatures. … Read the post culturally hybrid literature in medieval Europe

prayer for release from incarceration in Libro de buen amor

A prayer for release from incarceration has survived as the beginning stanzas in the 14th-century Spanish work Libro de buen amor. … Read the post prayer for release from incarceration in Libro de buen amor

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