Flamenca: medieval romance of Archimbaut & her husband Guillem
Without even offering him a bride-show, the Countess of Nevers decided that her son Guillem should marry Queen Archimbaut of Bourbon. That would be a highly advantageous marriage for the family. The...
View Articlemedieval priests desired and defended women against celibacy
The Christian Church from its beginnings has been gynocentric. Christians understand God to have become incarnate as Jesus in his mother Mary’s womb. Mary thus encompassed Jesus, just as Christians...
View ArticleGuillem’s prayers and Rosalía’s “Di mi nombre”: about gyno-idolatry
Thinking only of his burning love for Flamenca, Guillem in thirteenth-century Provence went to church with an inn-keeper preoccupied with money-making. They both knelt at an alter of St. Clement....
View ArticleMarc Angelucci: modern martyr like ancient Saint Vincent
A voice that witnesses to the truth cannot be extinguished. { vox veritatis testis extingui nequit } Marc Angelucci, a civil-rights attorney who worked selflessly for decades to overcome gender...
View ArticleBernart de Ventadorn & medieval Latin lyric on season for love
As the season changes from winter to summer, the earth pushes forth new life. This reality of nature has prompted lyric poets throughout the ages to associate springtime with love. Medieval...
View Articlediscrimination against transwomen: Iphis & Ianthe, Leucippus & Daphne
Modern societies ideologically deny manifestly oppressive gynocentrism and castration culture. In these circumstances, about 75% more men than women transition across the gender binary.[1] Men becoming...
View Articlemedieval tale: Flamenca loves Archimbaut’s imprisoned husband Guillem
In her jealous wickedness, Queen Archimbaut locked her husband Guillem in a tower in Bourbon. She allowed him out of that prison only a half hour every evening to watch the plague news and worship...
View ArticleCharlemagne’s peer Oliver outdid Emperor Claudius’s wife Messalina
Valeria Messalina, who acquired as a husband the first-century Roman Emperor Tiberius Claudius, is renowned for her strong, independent sexuality. Women are sexually privileged in having socially...
View Articleennobling love for men made medieval women worthy of men’s love
In this time of a new plague, the longstanding plague of lovelessness continues to grind souls to death. Ignorance and bigotry in our benighted age of gynocentrism contributes to lovelessness. Life...
View ArticleFlamenca seduces Guillem in church in medieval courtly romance
Still filled with joy from seeing Guillem in church yesterday, Flamenca again took the same spot in the choir for the evening plague news and worship service. She clapped along with everyone when the...
View Articletroubadour Gavaudan redeemed ancient pastoral literary genre
She wakes up fresh, she wakes up fair: she goes to the spring to wash her hair. Happily in love, in love she’s happy. She wakes up fair, she wakes up fresh: she goes to the spring to wash her face....
View ArticleFlamenca & Guillem, with servant women & men, enjoy sexual intimacy
Thinking of meeting his beloved Flamenca in the baths, Guillem didn’t sleep all that medieval night. The next morning, he called softly, moaning in great suffering, to his wife: I’ve never felt such...
View Articlecontempt for incels and men dying from lovesickness must cease
Ah, good and desirable love, a body well-formed, slender and smooth, young, fine-hued flesh that God has fashioned with his hands. I have always desired you, for nothing other pleases me. I want no...
View Articlehonor masculine incarnation for alternative to castration culture
Deeply entrenched castration culture threatens to terminate modern life in miserable social death. Increasingly tyrannical sex regulations in practice almost exclusively target men. They feed modern...
View ArticleGuillem cuckolds Archimbaut with Flamenca at beauty tournament
After her beloved Guillem told her to depart, Flamenca returned forlorn to her land at Nevers in medieval Burgundy. Hearing of a large market for women’s luxury apparel in Flanders, she immediately...
View ArticleMontaigne on liberal humanism & gender bias in COVID-19 deaths by sex
The sixteenth-century essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as a pioneer of enlightened public reason. Montaigne fully recognized humans’ ability to be contradictory and to...
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