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...And nowadays, they will send you a "wyd, 🍆💦🍑"...

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5/5 In her hands, she is holding two little dwarfs with a pope crown and a kings crown on their heads, symbolising the secret power of women over world history and the double morals of the ruling classes.

4/5 The chronicler of the council, Ulrich von Richental counted them and his chronicle is a widely known medieval source today. These women are remembered by a huge modern statue of the courtisan 'Imperia', dominating the view of Constance harbour next to the original council house.

3/5 To organise the food and shelter for all these people was an immense task and a great chance for all kinds of service providers, including hundreds of sex workers of all kinds, who flocked to the city, both as officially registered workers and free employed ones.

2/5 Basically, a lot of secular and church authorities met in this german town to decide who should be pope which increased the population of the city from 5000 to about 30 000 people in a very short period. As a comparison, Vienna had about 20 000 inhabitants in that time.

1/5 An impressive example of the request for sex work services among the population was the Council of Constance from 1414-1418.
The council is a terribly interesting story, which you should read up on, but it is too long to tell here.

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Grafische Ankündigung des WildMics Specials: Der Hintergrund zeigt eine dunkle, nächtliche Waldszene mit einem hell leuchtenden Lagerfeuer in der Mitte. Über dem Lagerfeuer steht in großer, heller Schrift das Wort „Laberfeuer“. Links und rechts vom Feuer befinden sich zwei Porträtfotos, jeweils mit einem goldumrandeten, verbrannten Papiereffekt: Links ist ein Mann mittleren Alters zu sehen. Unter seinem Bild steht: „Andrej Pfeiffer-Perkuhn“ Rechts ist eine Frau abgebildet. Sie trägt ein mittelalterlich wirkendes weißes Tuch, das ihren Kopf und Hals bedeckt. Unter ihrem Bild steht: „Agnes Zankl“ Unter dem Feuer ist in weißer, großer Schrift das Thema der Sendung zu lesen: „Thema: KRIEGERINNEN“ Zusätzlich steigen aus dem Feuer stilisierte Wörter empor, wie „RESEARCH“, „EDUCATION“, „HISTORY“, „VIRTUE“, „STUDY“ – als würden sie mit dem Rauch aufsteigen. Das gesamte Bild vermittelt eine Mischung aus Lagerfeuer-Romantik und wissenschaftlicher Diskussion. Links unten befindet sich ein schwarz-weißes Logo von Hoaxilla, das zwei stilisierte Gesichter mit Sonnenbrillen zeigt. Daneben ein schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: "WildMics – Special 223". Rechts unten ist ein farbenfrohes WildMics-Logo mit einem Mikrofon und Regenbogenfarben.

👩‍⚔️Im 223. WildMics-Special ging es um die Legende der antiken Kriegerinnen.
Gab es Frauen in Rüstung mit Schwert, die in vorderster Front kämpften, oder nicht?
Mit @das-gemeine-wip.bsky.social , @geschichtsfenster.bsky.social & @tommykrappweis.de
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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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4/4 The guards arrested him as a part of the group disturbing the nightly peace of the city.
While he clearly was a sinner, church authorities did not care too much, since he later became bishop.

3/4 This chronical text from 1345 Lübeck (Germany) tells us about the priest Johannes Mul, partying with a bunch of drunk people in the streets, dressed as a layman and in company of a sex worker.

2/4 These are humourous tales, meant to challenge the moral standards and hierarchies in society, but we also have quite a number of real world sources telling us of monks, nuns and priests in compromising situations. Prime example are early medieval penitanitiaries, which we already talked about.

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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#medievalsexuality
#livinghistory
#reenactment

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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If unbridled Venus rules you in your youth and if your manhood forces you to approach a prostitute, look for a prostitute who is not visited by absolutely everyone, drain your testicles quickly, and leave quickly. A prostitute's hungry hook taints stupid men's bait with sulphur. A man whom it touches even once will never leave with his freedom. A harlot loves degradation, and rich payment from her client, Any of them costs whatever amount you have to spend. A prostitute consumes more than the Harpies, and is fiercer than a she-bear. A woman who sells herself is the devil's clipped coin. O my boy, do not associate with such a woman. A man who pays her fritters away his wealth, soul, and life.

The book of the civilised man is a collection of advice for young noble men.It goes from pratical advice via moral lessons to table-manners and personal grooming. The author also included advice on how to treat women and sexual urges. And spoiler alert, he is not a huge feminist. 😀
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That seems to be a bug in Bluesky, many reddit posts about it, none had a solution so far. I made the feed with Skyfeed and it should have a 7 day limit (the maximum).

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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Big fan here! Thank you for all your pioneering work!

4/4 But the actual nature of women's sexuality was always left behind and a taboo in history, favouring topoi of the lusty and foolish woman who leads men into sin.

3/4 From a modern standpoint, it seems obvious that women have sexual desires of their own and maybe increase their happiness through outlets for these desires.

2/4 And since medieval physicists loved their greek medical works, it was obviously also adopted by contemporary medical authors like Trota of Salerno (who many of you probably already know), Albertus Magnus and Johannes de Sancto Paolo.
#medievalmedicine #livinghistory #medieval #reenactment

1/4 Therapeutical masturbation is often known to modern people as a weird victorian practice, but it is actually much older, going back to the times of Hippokrates and Galen.
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finally updated my computer, and now "æ" is long hold + 6 rather than long hold + 5. really slowing me down with this æthelwold research LOL #medievalsky

2/2 Note that despite her improvised lodgings, she still wants to look fashionable and put together with a typical 14th century hairstyle.

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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Just three weeks until the One Man Conference! 12 hours of one buildings archaeologist battling with his own throat...

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No, I only tucked it under and it worked great, but a pin won't hurt (if in the right spot :-D)

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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1/2 This lyrical call to non-monogamy was written by William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou and btw. the grandfather of famous Eleanore of Aquitaine.
Next to working politics and going on crusade, he was also a poet. Only a handfull of his poems survived.
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The resistance begins to coalesce. February 4, 2025

Der Widerstand beginnt sich zu formieren.

Robert B. Hubbell