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gyno-idolatry and atomism in medieval reception of De rerum natura
You hear these things, and I fear you’ll think yourself on the road to evil, learning the fundamentals of blasphemy. { Illud in his rebus vereor, ne forte rearis impia te rationis inire elementa...
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learned Jerome described rape in Life of Paul the First Hermit
According to badly reported data from the expert U.S. government health agency’s national survey, women raping men has a higher incidence than men raping women. The issue of men getting raped has been...
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punctuation poems pervasive: readers shape meanings of texts!!
Written communication depends on shared understandings of graphical symbols (words and punctuation) and mutual experience of combinations of words being used in different ways (genres). No writer can...
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limit to gender justice: lessons of ancient & medieval sumptuary laws
Men historically have carried a highly disparate gender burden of working to provide money for women. Women seeking from men expensive goods (dinners at fine restaurants, diamond rings, fancy dresses,...
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my mom has died: a tribute to a dearly loved and life-filled person
My mom unexpectedly went to the hospital on Friday evening, June 14. She unexpectedly died on Tuesday evening, June 18. At seventy-nine years young, she was in apparently good health two days before...
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on that little blue engine and the horror of unbounded possibilities
When she was about thirty-five, my mom read to me Shel Silverstein’s “The Little Blue Engine” as bedtime reading. My mom still remembered doing that about thirty-three years later. She then gave to me...
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the mud of sex and violence is one with the good earth
“Don’t write so much about sex and violence,” my mom told me. She had made Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls for her boys. As a child, I enjoyed sleeping with Raggedy Ann and beating my brothers over the...
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male & female gaze: following Perseus against horror of Medusa
Andromeda was a ravishingly beautiful princess. Not surprisingly, her name in ancient Greek meant “ruler of men.” Beautiful women have ruled men through the male gaze. So misused and misunderstood in...
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caution for learning Latin: the case of Maistre Mimin Estudiant
Every young man, and every young woman interested in young men, should learn medieval Latin, and so equipped, study medieval Latin literature. Young men should be careful, as medieval Latin literature...
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self-divided, Guibert of Nogent lacked his mother’s ideological purity
Like Dhuoda’s ninth-century Liber manualis, Guibert of Nogent’s twelfth-century Monodiae intimately concerns a mother-son relationship. Liber manualis is an artifact of Dhuoda’s presence, a book that...
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sacredness of sex highlighted in Guibert’s medieval metamorphoses
Hebrew scripture fundamentally teaches that God blesses with more life. In covenants with his chosen people, God promised to make their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sand on...
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sumptuary laws & circumcision: gender in protest effectiveness
In heavy grief, in heavy dismay, and in dreadful pain I weep and sigh. When I gaze at myself my heart all but cracks, and I nearly go blind when I look at my clothes — rich and noble, trimmed with fine...
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“good night, sweet mom”: words at my mom’s celebration of life
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there...
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“life is for the living” my mom often said
Here’s the celebration of life video that Dwight made.
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