Born in Pavia in northern Italy about 920 GC, Liudprand of Cremona was a man of deep classical learning. Liudprand knew well both Greek and Latin, and he wrote sophisticated Latin prose and poetry. He served as Bishop of Cremona in Italy and as an envoy of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I to the Byzantine Emperor Nicephoros Phocas in Constantinople in 968. Liudprand wasn’t afraid to challenge vigorously castration culture, gynocentrism, female privilege, and pornocracy. Liudprand died about 972. His lively writings deserve to be much better known.
Liudprand associated masculinity with swords and prowess in violence against men. Skill with a pen is more important for promoting justice for men. … Read the post Liudprand’s ideal of masculinity disastrous for men in long run
Greek & Roman classics enriched thinking of ordinary persons in medieval Italy. New appropriations of classics are needed to make classics matter again. … Read the post ancient Greek & Roman classics deeply influential in medieval Italy
In tenth-century Europe, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto the Great carefully and thoroughly considered rape and other serious charges against Pope John XII. … Read the post how Emperor Otto the Great judged pope accused of raping women
From the Theophylact Theodora I to her daughters Marozia & Theodora II, a pornocracy dominated tenth-century Italian church and government. … Read the post pornocracy: rule by whores in tenth-century Italy
With great rhetorical sophisication, Liudprand of Cremona disparaged men to criticize women: Dominic’s large penis alluded to Willa’s large vagina. … Read the post Liudprand’s rhetorical sophistication & a castrated man’s large penis
Liudprand’s Antapodosis tells of a Byzantine wife who opposed war on women & guilefully saved her husband from castration. Women of the world, do likewise! … Read the post against war on women: Byzantine wife saves husband from castration