Born in Pavia in northern Italy about 920 GC, Liudprand of Cremona was a man of deep classical learning. Liudprand knew well both Greek and Latin, and he wrote sophisticated Latin prose and poetry. He served as Bishop of Cremona in Italy and as an envoy of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I to the Byzantine Emperor Nicephoros Phocas in Constantinople in 968. Liudprand wasn’t afraid to challenge vigorously castration culture, gynocentrism, female privilege, and pornocracy. Liudprand died about 972. His lively writings deserve to be much better known.
Liudprand’s Antapodosis tells of a Byzantine wife who opposed war on women & guilefully saved her husband from castration. Women of the world, do likewise! … Read the post against war on women: Byzantine wife saves husband from castration