Medieval Women Behaving Badly

          Menstruation has always been seen in a negative spotlight.  Some African tribes believe that a woman will affect a man's viril...

Recently, I found some social media commentary on a popular feminist trend called, Neofeminism.   I came across this term while scrolling ...

Sex in Medieval Times          Augustine is thought to be the only Church Father who has wrote in great detail about church and sex (Fi...

Let me open by stating that, while the implications surrounding the readings of medieval literary texts including swords can easily be swa...

MASCULINITY GONE TO SHIT As you may have noticed there is a rather “shitty” theme that runs throughout Chaucer’s A Miller’s Tale. The sub...

There seems to be a profound difference between the sexual lives of upper and lower class women in the Middle Ages, specifically that upper...

The Book of Margery Kempe was one of the earliest autobiographies written, but was not entirely an autobiography. The biography was dated ...