'To be always with a woman and not to have intercourse with her is more difficult than to raise the dead. You cannot do the less difficult: do you think I will believe that you can do what is more difficult?' Bernard of Clairvaux.
Medieval history papers are great.Read these euphemisms from the author Imad Ad-Din about Frankish women in the crusader states, this is one paragraph of his writing, not a collection.
They were the places where tent pegs are driven in, they invited swords to enter their sheaths, they raized their terrain for planting, they made javelins rise towards shields, excited the plough to plough, gave the birds a place to peak with their beaks, allowed heads to enter their ante-chambers and raced under whoever bestrode them at spur's blow.
Originally Posted by John Banks
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