His speeches suggest a shift in perception of woman from enemy to lover to wife, with the implication of woman's submission to man. As courtesy books and religious tracts of the period indicate, that reference to love and marriage, while including mutuality, also meant acknowledging man's supe...
As a graduate of Oxford in Literae Humaniores, Boris will of course realise that his former mistress's term of abuse goes far deeper than accusations of mere priapism. Satyrs were not just randy creatures, depicted on Greek vases with a permanently erect phalluses, cavorting with nymphs. They...
let alone the mistress. Admittedly, my lack of knowledge of Dutch or German hindered my efforts. Periodically over the years, repeated attempts to find out more only yielded tantalizingly scant tidbits. But years of experience in historical research and the ability to translate articles...
In the formal banquet, British-style seating in order of masters: men and women sitting at the table, and two of the men and women guests sitting at the table spread out, both sides of the guest and the girl were sitting in the guest mistress and master of the right. ...