Heptameron
The Boatwoman and the Monks:
- It's a story within a story.
- "A boatwoman who did nothing day and night but convey people from point to point." So she takes people from port to port for wage
- SO they decided to rape her.. Okay and a woman is telling this story, so I hope she punishes them well.
- Oh and they're friars and monks.... great.
- Oh, the boatwoman has something up her sleeve!
- When they begged not to be isolated on the island that made my blood boil.
- I am so glad this woman does not take the men with her - I was honestly excepting her to take them because a majority if these stories have the people take the individuals who wronged them and they end up in a worse situation
- A husband!
- The biblical illusion was so ironic, I love it.
- I like how they bring up hypocrisy, especially with the bad people with good situations and examples while its usually good people with bad situations and examples who show better virtue than the first.
The Lady from Milan and Her Lover: Part I and II
- I can already tell I am not going to like this story.
- How the story begins with telling the reader how great this mysterious man is is probably to make us like him.
- She was admired by not taking another husband? Usually, widows are cast out but this woman is admired maybe because she is wealthy and has lots of brothers?
- I like how she is aware of his actions and how she tries to thwart them, but I am calling it now that she will find his advances charming and fall in love with him.
- He's stalking her!!!! NO, this is not healthy.
- I hate how his stalking is perceived as devotion.
- She is stubborn and prideful, I love it despite how she will most likely give in to his advances.
- And he is determined as well... three years, wow.
- I called it!
- I am not surprised he did not listen to her and tell her to sit in the bed quietly while he confronted her brothers - what a man thing to do.
- Oh, it was a test of his adoration of her.
- How gross.
A Villager, His Wife, and the Priest:
- I was confused on what was going on - but I realized rather quickly she was sleeping with the priest.
- I laughed so hard, but they played it off rather nicely. I am kinda glad they can talk about adultery with a priest and a woman and make a laugh out of it. Or I took it that way.
- Nevermind.
- "In a word, they lack what we have, and have abundance of what we have not." I like this phrase.
(Winnowing basket from WikiMedia Commons.)
The Virgin with Child:
- I have a feeling that they are not going to believe the woman who is pregnant.
- Very scandalous.
- I know many church goers who are well mannered and save face while in public, but its a different story when they are away from the church and anyone they know from church.
- Man, this girl is confident.
- "She told you that never man touched her any more than her brother." I honestly thought it was her brother as well.
- Because torture always brings out the truth... not.
- The truth is revealed!
- Both burned, well alrighty then.
The Monks and the Butcher:
- You should never listen in to someone else's conversation, never a good thing.
- Oh well, I guess this could be a different scenario.
- Nevermind!
- Physics is never kind to heavier people.
- He went into the pigsty!
- "The first idea that came into their heads was that St. Francis was angry with them because they had called pigs Cordeliers (friars)." I laughed so hard, oh my goodness.
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The President of Grenoble's Revenge:
- "I will spare neither man nor woman." I am curious.
- If they lived happily, why would the woman cheat with a clerk?
- The husband did not believe the old servant.
- Oh, no he's planning his revenge.
- This is probably going to take a lot of patience...
- He poisoned his wife.
- I don't know if I am awed by his patience or just put out by it.
- Murder should not be the answer for finding your spouse cheating.
- Also, so far, the woman are the only spouse that has committed adultery AND I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT MEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO CHEAT THAN WOMEN. I might have a story idea!
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, translated by Walter K. Kelly (1855).
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