Eleanor Janega - Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
A hilarious and thought-provoking podcast looking at sex, gender, and misogyny in the Middle Ages - with medieval pick-up artists, beauty tips based on the Bible, and much else besides.
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Show Notes
Why did the ideal medieval woman have a pot belly and small feet? Which days of the week was sex permitted? Why did the transgender sex workers of London steal men's clothes? Eleanor Janega has the answers. She teaches medieval and early modern history at the London School of Economics. She's also the creator of the blog Going Medieval and the author of The Once and Future Sex, a new book exploring the ideals of womanhood in the medieval period. She tells Luke Naylor Perrott more in a NSFW podcast that's funny, provocative, and depressingly relevant to the present.
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