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David Berreby's avatar

Would love to know what you make of Annete Kehnel's The Green Ages, which makes much of the communal prosperity of convents and beguinages. I think she is arguing that there were competing ideologies in medieval Europe, some of which were neither "modern" (ie capitalist) nor orthodox patriarchy. Ie not a book that says "let's celebrate this one person of 100,000 who beat the system" but rather "there were alternate systems that lasted centuries and weren't obliterated."

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15thCenturyFeminist's avatar

This was a great read, and I greedily soaked it up! Thank you so much for writing this. As I often like to say, medieval misogyny informs modern philosophy--we're not so far removed from the medieval world as we like to believe.

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