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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

Solomon and Marcolf

Solomon and Marcolf is a textual corpus that interrogates and interrupts gynocentrism and elite disparagement of ordinary men. In the Latin version, the first part consists of agonistic exchanges of gnomic sentences between Marcolf and Solomon. The second part narrates tricks showing Marcolf’s superior knowledge of guile relative to Solomon. The earliest surviving Latin text of Solomon and Marcolf is dated 1410. It was probably composed about 1200. Stories of Marcolf and Solomon were widely known no later than 1000. Solomon and Marcolf became highly popular in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Adaptations were produced in English, German, Italian, Welsh, and other European languages.

men and female prostitutes from ancient Sumer to medieval Europe

Men and women prostitutes related happily in ancient Sumer with its prostitute goddess Inanna. Medieval European men protested prostitutes exploiting them. … Read the post men and female prostitutes from ancient Sumer to medieval Europe

Cicero unpacked: piss on learned hypocrites to cultivate public fields

Cicero’s pithy words on education can be understood through the medieval Latin work Solomon and Marcolf and a lively poem of Luxorius. … Read the post Cicero unpacked: piss on learned hypocrites to cultivate public fields

farting: men’s pervasive burden of performance

In the basic bodily functions of sex and farting, men bear a burden of performance that should be lessened in loving appreciation for men. … Read the post farting: men’s pervasive burden of performance

Carfania & Marcolf: different positions for mooning judges

Different literary treatments of Carfania and Marcolf, both known for mooning judges, reflect disparate punishment by gender under law. … Read the post Carfania & Marcolf: different positions for mooning judges

Life of Aesop as continuing critique of elite culture

The Life of Aesop offers trenchant critique of elite culture. Aesopic conversations about sex and gender existed with Marcolf through the Middle Ages. … Read the post Life of Aesop as continuing critique of elite culture

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