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A living history project focusing on sexuality, sex work and women's medicine, bodies and identities in late medieval middle Europe.
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Trotula Medizin 12.JahrhundertSafran - ein ganz besonderer Stoff
Schon seit tausenden Jahren vielfältig genutzt:
Gegen Entzündungen, zur Steigerung der Wirkung von Opium, harntreibend
In der Frauenheilkunde zur Kontraktion des Uterus, zur Geburtserleichterung, bei übermäßiger Menstruation
aber auch als Abortivum und nicht zuletzt als Aphrodisiakum
Im Trotula Kompendium aber nur als Blondierung 😕
Immer wieder wird auch erwähnt dass große Mengen tödlich sind
#womenshistory #womenshealth #livinghistory #reenactment
"Coitus" from the Tacuinum Sanitatis, 1370-1402, Liege Library, 1041, Page 140, public domain
#medievalsexuality #livinghistory #reenactment #14thcentury #middleages
Few people in history influenced christian religion as profoundly as the early church father Augustinus. In his works on christianity and society, he formed gender constructs, sexuality in the middle ages and as an extension all of western society in ways that can be hardly recorded in its entirety.
His understanding of sex work as necessary evil is still the dominant idea most people in western society hold about the phenomenon.
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.
2/3 This absurd example of a test of his skills on a nun is hilarious. HE initiates the flirt and tries to manipulate her and when SHE responds (mind you, with “pleasant conversation” and by …having a pretty face?), suddenly it is HIM that is caught in her snares and unable to control himself.
1/3 Capellanus, a medieval dating coach :-D He wrote a whole book on the art of courting women. In it, he explained all he knew about properly maneuvring the medieval dating world. He even had a shortlist of 31 “rules of love”, for his readers to memorise. Very social media oriented.
#livinghistory #reenactment
#livinghistory #reenactment
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! There are numerous sources for anaphrodisiacs in medieval medical compendiums for men and women, none of which have actual medical use as far as I can tell as a laywoman.
#medievalmedicine #medievalsexuality #15thcentury #medieval #middleages #livinghistory #medievalwomen
