While Roman Empress Messalina is famed for her sexuality, Charlemagne’s peer Oliver outdid her with a Byzantine princess in the Pilgrimage of Charlemagne. … Read the post Charlemagne’s peer Oliver outdid Emperor Claudius’s wife Messalina
The medieval romance Flamenca poignantly depicts jealous and love through Archimbaut & Guillem. Flamenca critiques conventional gender-biased courtly love. … Read the post Flamenca: medieval romance of Archimbaut & her husband Guillem
The medieval chantefable Aucassin et Nicolette complicates gender’s essential ambiguity and heteronormativity. It’s essential for meninist literary study. … Read the post the question of masculinities in Aucassin et Nicolette