The Lamentations of Matheolus
While married men necessarily know very little about women, Matheolus struggles through his bitterness to reveal more than enough of the truth about women, at the same time as serving as a warning to us all . . .
[The following short extracts are from Le Fèvre's translation (c. 1371-2) of a subtle poem, the Liber lamentationum Matheoluli, written around 1295 by Mathieu of Boulogne (via a recent translation from Le Fèvre's by Karen Pratt, in Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts, Oxford University Press, 1992)]
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Dominating Clock
The Winning Sophistry of Wives
Woman Over Wisdom
Living with a Basilisk
”Jangling” Woman
The Free-wheeling Widow
Bedroom Politics
Women and Lechery
In Defence of Anti-feminism
Mother of Calamity
Monstrous Woman
Termination of the Female Sex
While married men necessarily know very little about women, Matheolus struggles through his bitterness to reveal more than enough of the truth about women, at the same time as serving as a warning to us all . . .
[The following short extracts are from Le Fèvre's translation (c. 1371-2) of a subtle poem, the Liber lamentationum Matheoluli, written around 1295 by Mathieu of Boulogne (via a recent translation from Le Fèvre's by Karen Pratt, in Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts, Oxford University Press, 1992)]
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Dominating Clock
The Winning Sophistry of Wives
Woman Over Wisdom
Living with a Basilisk
”Jangling” Woman
The Free-wheeling Widow
Bedroom Politics
Women and Lechery
In Defence of Anti-feminism
Mother of Calamity
Monstrous Woman
Termination of the Female Sex
