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===Birth - Late French Middle-Ages=== | ===Birth - Late French Middle-Ages=== | ||
What we know now as unequal chivalry, sometimes called [[gynocentrism]] or [[white knight]] | What we know now as unequal chivalry, sometimes called [[gynocentrism]] or [[white knight]] behavior, arguably only began on a societal scale in the West in 1102AD in France. | ||
====War fought in the name of women==== | ====War fought in the name of women==== | ||
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{{Quote|"It is a marvelous sight in our city to see the wife of a shoemaker or butcher or even a porter all dressed up in gold chains around her neck, with pearls and valuable rings around her fingers [...] and then by contrast to see her husband cutting up meat all soiled with ox's blood and down at the heel, or loaded up like a beast of burden dressed in rough cloth, as porters are. | {{Quote|"It is a marvelous sight in our city to see the wife of a shoemaker or butcher or even a porter all dressed up in gold chains around her neck, with pearls and valuable rings around her fingers [...] and then by contrast to see her husband cutting up meat all soiled with ox's blood and down at the heel, or loaded up like a beast of burden dressed in rough cloth, as porters are. | ||
At first it may seem an astonishing | At first it may seem an astonishing anomaly to see the wife dressed like a lady and the husband so basely that he often appears to be her servant or butler, but if we consider the matter properly, even if she is humble and low, to be ornamented in this way because of her natural dignity and excellence, and the man less so, like a servant or beast born to serve her."|Lucrezia Marinella}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||