La nascita del femminismo medievale. Maria di Francia e la rivolta dell’amore cortese

Another revolution was born in France before the one in 1789: the revolt of Marie of France. It isn’t recounted in books because it failed. This revolution aimed to impose a feminine view of the world and its effects included the birth of courtly love, a luminous star during the Middle Ages that was later obscured by the acrimony of the early modern period. As a result, Marie’s historical identity was lost or confused.The daughter of King Louis VII, Marie was born in France in 1145 and spent most of her life in her husband’s county, Champagne. She was a writer but, above all, an intellectual who had other authors write about her own ideas. New and progressive ideas about love, sexuality, marital relations and those of couples. Ideas that – a thousand years before the sexual revolution of the 20th century – could have marked a new course of women’s history.