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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

Rabelais

Rabelais on reforming penal justice in shadow of castration culture

Abolishing biased penal punishing belongs with overturning castration culture. Rabelais through Panurge proposed penal reform to conserve semen. … Read the post Rabelais on reforming penal justice in shadow of castration culture

break the classical circle: love beyond castration and cuckolding

The medieval poem “Profuit ignaris” and Rabelais’s Tiers Livre show the classical circle of castration and cuckolding without true love for men. … Read the post break the classical circle: love beyond castration and cuckolding

codpiece is most important part of fighting man’s armor

At wives’ insistence, medieval men protected their jewels with armored codpieces. Men today call their jewels “junk.” Alas for the seminal blessing! … Read the post codpiece is most important part of fighting man’s armor

Rabelais added dog piss to Flamenca’s mockery of elite pretenses

After amorous gambits in church as in medieval Flamenca, Rabelais’ Panurge overthrew the great lady of Paris with dog piss in carnivalic gender revolution. … Read the post Rabelais added dog piss to Flamenca’s mockery of elite pretenses

enlightened questioning of medieval pregnant nun claiming rape

Reforming criminal justice requires questioning as promoted by Erasmus and Rabelais in relaying the medieval story of the pregnant nun claiming rape. … Read the post enlightened questioning of medieval pregnant nun claiming rape

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