Jean Bodel’s Jeu de Saint Nicolas includes a wine song like those in classical Arabic and uses wine to establish peace & unity among fighting men. … Read the post wine song and peace in Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas
Saint Alexander Akimetes as an anchorite reportedly raised a baby girl, got her pregnant, and then murdered her, but eventually received her forgiveness. … Read the post great Saint Alexander Akimetes’s wicked rationalizing
Goscelin’s Vita & Translatio of tenth-century saint Edith of Wilton describes miracles for bowel movements without any medieval sense of stench. … Read the post bowel miracle of Saint Edith exposed thief
In medieval Basil hagiography, a man giving his soul to the devil for love of Proterius’s daughter faced Hellish bureaucracy. Dr. Faustus got lucky. … Read the post Hellish bureaucracy in man giving soul to devil for woman’s love
Pioneering, 12th-century proto-beguine Odilia of Liège on her wedding night threatened to castrate her husband. They then had 6 years of sexless marriage. … Read the post wife’s wedding-night threat led to six years of sexless marriage