The Ripoll songs (Carmina Rivipullensia) are twenty Latin poems about love. These poems survive in a single medieval manuscript, MS Ripoll 74, now preserved in the Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragó (Barcelona, Spain). According to the best current scholarly analysis, a cleric wrote the Ripoll songs in Metz in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, perhaps in 1150 or 1151. These poems show humane and generous appreciation for men’s hardships and struggles in love.
Medieval men’s dreams attests to enduring hope for gender justice amid men-abasing gynocentric norms of courtly love and contempt for men’s lives. … Read the post “I had a dream”: medieval imagining of gender justice
In medieval Europe, Ripoll love songs sing the joy of sex, with concern for women’s consent, without the totalitarianism of today’s rape culture. Swerve! … Read the post the now-inconceivable medieval joy of sex