"Coitus" from the Tacuinum Sanitatis, 1370-1402, Liege Library, 1041, Page 140, public domain
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His understanding of sex work as a necessary evil is widely held by people in western society to this day and influences policies in many countries.
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3/3 It also illustrates a common misogynist pattern in his writing and the writings of other medieval authors in which he paints men as the responsible adults while fickleminded women are the object of desire, worthy of artful worship, but also, dangerous embodiments of sin.
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when the woman lusts. take betony and cook it and drink it with warm wine and myrh.
1/2 A recipe for an anaphrodisiac.
It was the opinion of medieval physicians that women didn't need aphrodisiacs, because they were always lustfull. On the contrary, they needed countermeasures to make them more chaste!
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the breasts of women are made from soft and tender tissue by nature. they shall be small and tight on virgins. aristotle says, when the virgins have breasts two fingers long, then they begin to desire men. Konrad von Megenberg, the book of nature, 14th century
Yikes, Konrad. Yikes.
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A young man im the brothel, Meister mit den Bandrollen, 1469-1475, ALBERTINA, Wien, Public domain
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Syphilistractate of the Viennese physician Bartholomäus Steber, 1490s, currently on exhibition at Vienna's national library.
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3/3 But also, they are sometimes the result of people touching, rubbing or even kissing the parchment. Kathryn Rudy has done some very interesting work on that topic if you would like to know more about it.
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he thought he was perfected, so that he went to the women’s house on saturday and sinned with a woman and broke his marriage vows, since he had a wife. And he said it is no sin, rather a need like drinking and eating and he has to listen to nature. He also said that perfect humans, women and men, should enjoy each other, they may walk naked in front of each other, even if it leads to sin, the perfection would be so great since they are united with god so deeply that they can not sin.
1/5 Free spirits in the middle ages?
Medieval people were not a monolith. In fact, we find lots of examples of people questioning the church and its moral teachings.
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Female masturbation as a grotesque on the townhall of Saint Quentin, France, likely 15th century
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🧵 1/ CW: domestic violence
The old woman's lament/old woman's confession is a very common trope in late medieval poetry and tells us about marginalised women's experiences.
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...And nowadays, they will send you a "wyd, 🍆💦🍑"...
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Woman, this truly amazing creation, this wonder of nature, blossoms before us all as she leads chaste clerics astray with her skill, as she grasps unlucky men, binds them in her girdle, tangles them in her mantle, and feeds them Venus' hooked bait, pouring Lethean drinks, and makes them into oxen that do not remember Lethe's stream, that lack senses and reason, all for a poor reward. Book of the civilised man, 13th century
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Naughty priests in medieval history
"...crimes in the city at night, especially at night. Having committed them, specially appointed by their mandate, Johannes Mul, a canon of Lublin, was found in secular and lay attire with a certain dishonorable woman, committing quarrels and insolence at night, and they took him as a layman and brought him into the custom of the city and brought the said woman into the fetters of the preacher, and they justly placed him in the aforesaid position."
1/4 In medieval stories like the Decameron, we often hear about priests and monks who had a hard time sticking to their vow of celibacy.
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But seriously, if you have interest in any kind of social history of this time, make sure to get this one, it was so worth it!
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A group of people in medieval clothing sitting around a nightly table and celebrating
The humanist and later Pope Pius II visited Vienna in the 1450s and was apparently shocked at what he encountered.
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1/2 A sex worker in her makeshift leaf and twig shelter/tent on a market with a client.
Sex workers were traveling for occasions in which many people and therefor potential clients came together.
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2/2 Fun fact: He had a wild affair with Viscountess Amauberge of L'Ile Bouchard, nicknamed "Dangereuse" for her seductiveness who left her husband for the also married William. He even caused his own excommunication with the affair. The two had three children.
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You can't do right by our friend Berthold, he just loves to complain about women.
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And despite this quote being 800 years old, little has changed in how the general population understands female sex organs. I am usually not fond of that term, but this is some truly "medieval" understanding of biology. Well... technically ancient greek.. but it still fits.
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The removal of pubic hair really is no modern topic.
Although we can assume most medieval people did not have the leisure to spend a lot of their time on an extended beauty regime, the hairless vulva was a sign of the ideal, the youthfull woman. 1/8
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The first ever description of the female orgasm can be found in the writings of Hildegard von Bingen. And I would say, it is pretty accurate in regards to what it feels like, right? 1/
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Can you solve the riddle 😉? Answer in comments.
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4/4 The preacher here describes it as the practice of those selling their bodies on the street and their souls to the devil.
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A late medieval contraceptive amulette after descriptions from 14th century french text sources. More on my blog (link in bio).
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