Dr Eleanor Janega: Wrote a blog lads. It's about how medieval people are less prudish than we are in a lot of ways, and how I can't post medieval images of Eve around here... going-medieval.com/2024/04/22/o...

Wrote a blog lads. It's about how medieval people are less prudish than we are in a lot of ways, and how I can't post medieval images of Eve around here... going-medieval.com/2024/04/22/o...

On obscenity and modernitygoing-medieval.com It will come as a surprise to exactly zero regular readers that I have been contemplating the concept of obscenity lately. What may come as a surprise to you, however, is exactly why I have been think...

I saw a copy of Once And Future Sex in my local bookstore (in a town north of Toronto).

Omg!! Facing out!! Thank you so much. It means a lot to see these.

Having spent a few weeks in Rome, including seeing pictures collected by Popes... there's some seggsy shit there! (And we won't go into all the gorgeous Saint Sebastian imagery either... or the magic floating bronze loincloth).

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Days not weeks!l

I read Canterbury Tales in my mid 20s & knew little about it before starting. Well, imagine my surprise🤭 Lost count of the times I laughed out loud on the Gypsy Hill to London Bridge. Bawdy AF💜

LMAO south east commute REALNESS

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Thanks for showing us the fresco. It is glorious indeed.

Isn't it???

I mightn't normally point out a typo but when it's the name of your own book you might appreciate it 😅 (The hyperlink to it on the blog says "One and Future" instead)

Thanks babe!!! I am fully delirious this week.

Happy to help! And totally understandablr haha

...as you can see Solidarity? 😅

Fuck it we ball!!!

I figure that the artists and their rich clientele might not have been very representative or most common people in those days. Or, for that matter, in these days.

As a general rule we find commoners to be even less inhibited, given the lack of privacy and close quarters of their living situations. Given that this was in a church it is also for a broad audience. Thus we can extrapolate safely here.

Damnit, Martin Luther!

"(LMAO, get their asses Giovanni.)" I love your posts so much

Well yeah; it's a misconception that Christian Europe started prudish & let up over time. Rather it mainly became more stringent as a result of certain protestant denominations after the Reformation, staying that way in those regions up through the Victorian era, after which it laxed up a bit.

"the gluttonous guy who is impaling his head on a spike attempting to get to a roast chicken" I am in this picture, and I don't like it.

Dr. Janega, I meant no disrespect when I questioned your extrapolation. However, I must say that the tail of this thread has bad manners. Abusive, even. Too bad. Well, I'm off.

Reminds me (obliquely) of Haw Par Villa back in Singapore where the theme park’s main attraction was the 10 Courts of Hell

“A less important rule is that I am very strong willed” same. i really hear you on that. 👍

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