deliriumcrow | Victorious!

If anyone cares, I actually got into the Medieval Women class. Hooray! I am ever so pleased with that, seeing as it's one of the courses that Albany does not offer. And I'm loving the assignments so much I'm already ahead on them. Such awesome articles, as

manycolored has seen. Some really funny original sources, if you want to call St Jerome telling people not to marry because wemen are evil, or Tertullian telling women that they should be ugly because otherwise they are hazardous to men's piety in any way funny. Dies and Pauper is good though. Aristotle and Galen's treatises on women's bodies are just amusing. I mean, even people with the most basic 8th grade understanding of pysiology have at least some idea of the fact that everything they say is *wrong*. (If anyone is interested I can send a link. It requires a password, so I"m probably not supposed to, but I doubt that too many people will be clamoring for it.)Anyway, I find it highly interesting. This semester is full of Medieval sex. This is good. I like having homework that I enjoy doing, even if the result is a righteous indignation that makes me want to thwap stupid dead people and show them every place their logic is flawed, and every place they're just simply *wrong*. Heh. The poetry is great, though. It's good when a prof hands out a poem on the first day and within a few seconds one hears quiet snickers and giggles.