Theologian Peter Lombard in his Sentences rejected courtly love and declared that men and women in love are intended to have an equal conjugal partnership. … Read the post Peter Lombard’s Sentences: conjugal partnership, not courtly love
The Arundel Lyrics, exquisite erotic poetry written in Latin in twelfth-century England, thoroughly explore the Viaticum’s polarities of lovesickness … Read the post men suffering lovesickness: Viaticum in medieval Latin poetry
Le Ménagier de Paris includes a poignant medieval husband’s fantasy of hardships of work, comforts from a wife, and forgiveness for adultery. … Read the post medieval husband fantasy: hardships, comfort & forgiveness
Narrow historical / technical disputes about amour courtois obscure broad scholarly endorsement of men’s love abjection and men’s love servitude to women. … Read the post amour courtois & glorification of men’s love abjection
William Reddy’s recent tome, The Making of Romantic Love, shows the cultural construction of the cultural construction of gender extended to sexual desire. … Read the post cultural construction of Reddy’s The Making of Romantic Love
A medieval scholar found in Grazida Lizier’s thought themes of eroticism, skepticism, and myth-making. Reservoir Tip’s text suggests more enlightenment. … Read the post Grazida Lizier & Reservoir Tip on mutually joyful love-making
Understanding medieval women’s love poetry teaches men how to secure enduring pleasure in a woman’s love. … Read the post medieval women’s love poetry for men’s learning
The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight’s story of three sexual heroes promotes info on enhancing performance. Sexual heroes are a hard act to follow. … Read the post sexual heroes in the Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight
In a 7th-century Chinese wedding prayer, the bridegroom asks for the blessing of having slaves. Chinese Christian wedding prayers surely differed greatly. … Read the post Chinese bridegroom's traditional wedding prayer
A 12th-century Latin text readily dismissed as misogynistic or antifeminist insightfully shows medieval men’s self-consciousness about masculine love. … Read the post medieval men protesting devaluation of masculine love