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===Wars fought in the name of women=== | ===Wars fought in the name of women=== | ||
William IX, the Duke of Aquitaine (Southern France) and poet, famously transformed the image of war from something fought for men and God to being fought for ''women''. He famously painted his mistress on his shield (which he called "my lord"). He also famously said that men should sacrifice themselves to women for having birthed them, saying | William IX, the Duke of Aquitaine (Southern France) and the first know Troubadour poet, famously transformed the image of war from something fought for men and God to being fought for ''women''. He famously painted his mistress on his shield (which he called "my lord"). He also famously said that men should sacrifice themselves to women for having birthed them, saying | ||
{{Quote|"It was his will to bear her in battle, as she had borne him in bed"|William IX}} | {{Quote|"It was his will to bear her in battle, as she had borne him in bed"|William IX}} | ||
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Marie directs her chaplain Andreas Capellanus (André the chaplain) to write, "The Art of Courtly Love", which initially viewed by scholars as a serious text of medieval chivalry, has come to be viewed as a parody,<ref>http://cola.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl513/courtly/courtly.htm</ref> warning young men of the true nature of established, fairly neutral chivalric codes.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Capellanus</ref> Andreas painted peasants as fornicating beasts that are uncapable of love, and recommends that a knight who falls in love with a peasant woman should lure her to a quiet place with honeyed words and "[should] not hesitate to take what you want by force."<ref>http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/andreas/de_amore.html</ref> | Marie directs her chaplain Andreas Capellanus (André the chaplain) to write, "The Art of Courtly Love", which initially viewed by scholars as a serious text of medieval chivalry, has come to be viewed as a parody,<ref>http://cola.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl513/courtly/courtly.htm</ref> warning young men of the true nature of established, fairly neutral chivalric codes.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Capellanus</ref> Andreas painted peasants as fornicating beasts that are uncapable of love, and recommends that a knight who falls in love with a peasant woman should lure her to a quiet place with honeyed words and "[should] not hesitate to take what you want by force."<ref>http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/andreas/de_amore.html</ref> | ||
After extolling some of the virtues of love, the book concludes with Andreas ultimately advising men to forgo love for religious and health reasons and apparently ends with a "misogynistic tirade" against women. | After extolling some of the virtues of love, the book concludes with Andreas ultimately advising men to forgo love for religious and health reasons and apparently ends with a "misogynistic tirade" against women. | ||
===Troubadour Poetry=== | |||
We see the first major female-sex-favoritist in the ''''Troubador poetry of the 12th century''', as well as vernacular narratives directed toward William's daughter Eleanor. The depictions of love in these poems and narratives are described as "courtly love". It is called this because the man's romantic role is modeled after a knight, and the female's role is modeled after a Lord. In other words, the woman is in complete control of the relationship and the man is ultimately obident and submissive to the woman. It is important to note, that this love was only about love outside marriage. | |||
===Stories=== | ===Stories=== | ||