The role of ladies in the first sporting tournaments
Women were instrumental in inspiring and regulating manners at the first sporting tournaments. Has anything changed?
Chivalry
Instruction of boys in the arts of chivalry
As contained in historical textbooks about chivalry, the training of boys to serve women starts very young.
Ernest Belfort Bax on feminism’s relation to chivalry
Over 100 years ago E.B. Bax talked of first-wave feminists soliciting, expecting and receiving male chivalry for the benefit of women. Has anything changed?
Can women be chivalrous? Damn right they can.
In an age of great safety and convenience, perhaps its time to reconsider the role of chivalry.
Learning from women: tears will gain you forgiveness for all your crimes
When women cry they are absolved from crimes by a chivalrous audience. Would the same work for men?
Peter Lombard: conjugal partnership, not courtly love
Unlike a more humane relationship of conjugal love, the long-reigning ideology of courtly love deepens men’s subordination to women.
Why should we fight?
Why should we fight? A very good question. Max takes this on with a style and insight only he has.
Heroism and Gender
Men, women and heroism.
Yvain & Gawain: men fighting for women should talk with each other
“Yvain and Gawain were like two fighting dogs on whom the sisters had placed bets and set at each other.”
The Bound – when blue shifts to red…
An “interview [with] Paul Bois, a conservative filmmaker who is trying to crowdfund a short film which he describes as a medieval-horror-action film that is a social commentary on modern ideological feminism.”
