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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

social networks

analysis of social relations emphasizing communications and evolutionary psychology

true sexual love for less than a quarter of Asian-Pacific men

A United Nations survey propagating hate rape found that less than a quarter of men in Asia-Pacific have had true sexual love. Promote love, not hate. … Read the post true sexual love for less than a quarter of Asian-Pacific men

ridiculing the learned measures intellectual development

Classical Arabic texts more frequently ridicule the learned than disparage common folk. That indicates high intellectual-cultural development. … Read the post ridiculing the learned measures intellectual development

Petrus Alfonsi on love and sharing knowledge

Early 12th-century physician-philosopher Petrus Alfonsi described love and sharing in scholarly practice. Medical patients and Jews didn’t feel that love. … Read the post Petrus Alfonsi on love and sharing knowledge

doubts about public debate early in Abbasid caliphate

Kitab Bilawhar wa-Budasf, an Arabic work from the early Abbasid caliphate, indicates personal interaction is more effective than formal public debate. … Read the post doubts about public debate early in Abbasid caliphate

Kalilah and Dimnah's changing paratexts and communicative relations

Interests of authors of Kalilah and Dimnah’s paratexts became less personal and more general across paratexts spanning nearly a millennium. … Read the post Kalilah and Dimnah's changing paratexts and communicative relations

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