The retroactive history writing reminds me of the stuff my friend Ash, a medieval lit major working on her PhD, has told me about Victorian revisionism and the problems it's caused forhistorians.
Many of the Victorians were prudey and closed minded a lot, so they basically wrote anything they didn't approve of - anything that didn't conform to their ideas of how things ought to go - out of everything. So, POOF every literate woman in the medieval era has vanished. The fact that peasant women busted their asses day after day like their husbands, gone. Hildegarde of Bingen is treated as this big exception to the "rule" that NO WOMAN WAS EVER LITERATE EVARRsgskjgfdsg BECAUSE THERE WAS NO NEED BLAH BLAH WHY DON'T YOU BITCHES SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP BAW, and the idea that medieval noblewomen basically ran their fucking houses because their husbands were off wrangling their property? OH MY GOD I HAVE THE VAPOURS.
If you ask most people if they know what an anchoress is they probably don't know. A lot of those women were literate. A lot of nuns were literate. It wasn't unheard of for a noblewoman to be semi-literate - she had to handle the goddamn paperwork and shit after all. But all these little dingalings who want so so so SO badly for 'women doing stuff' to be a modern invention and an exception to 'the way things are/the way things were back in the good old days' - these dorks who have never read an oldschool translation, an UNSANITIZED version of the Matter of Britain, and who think Chaucer just pulled the Wife of Bath out of his nose and she wasn't a reflection of a sort of medieval woman who EXISTED...yeah.
it's like, scared white d00ds want everyone but them to disappear.
Tough shit, whiners. The smarter members of your group - who are the majority, I think - and the rest of the world will leave your asses behind. XD
Also roflmao I didn't know who the hell Hughes was until now. Oops.
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Many of the Victorians were prudey and closed minded a lot, so they basically wrote anything they didn't approve of - anything that didn't conform to their ideas of how things ought to go - out of everything. So, POOF every literate woman in the medieval era has vanished. The fact that peasant women busted their asses day after day like their husbands, gone. Hildegarde of Bingen is treated as this big exception to the "rule" that NO WOMAN WAS EVER LITERATE EVARRsgskjgfdsg BECAUSE THERE WAS NO NEED BLAH BLAH WHY DON'T YOU BITCHES SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP BAW, and the idea that medieval noblewomen basically ran their fucking houses because their husbands were off wrangling their property? OH MY GOD I HAVE THE VAPOURS.
If you ask most people if they know what an anchoress is they probably don't know. A lot of those women were literate. A lot of nuns were literate. It wasn't unheard of for a noblewoman to be semi-literate - she had to handle the goddamn paperwork and shit after all. But all these little dingalings who want so so so SO badly for 'women doing stuff' to be a modern invention and an exception to 'the way things are/the way things were back in the good old days' - these dorks who have never read an oldschool translation, an UNSANITIZED version of the Matter of Britain, and who think Chaucer just pulled the Wife of Bath out of his nose and she wasn't a reflection of a sort of medieval woman who EXISTED...yeah.
it's like, scared white d00ds want everyone but them to disappear.
Tough shit, whiners. The smarter members of your group - who are the majority, I think - and the rest of the world will leave your asses behind. XD
Also roflmao I didn't know who the hell Hughes was until now. Oops.