Aug 28, 2017 04:47 AM
Medieval London was the most violent place in England
https://www.newscientist.com/article/214...n-england/
EXCERPT: And you thought Game of Thrones was rough. Lower-class young men in medieval London were subjected to extreme levels of violence, far worse than other parts of medieval England.
“It appears that violence in medieval London may have been largely tied to sex and social status,” says archaeologist Kathryn Krakowka at the University of Oxford.
Krakowka analyzed 399 skulls from six London cemeteries dating from AD 1050 to 1550. [...] She found that 6.8 per cent of all skulls examined showed some kind of violence-related trauma. Males from 26 to 35 years old were particularly affected. About 25 per cent of the skull injuries occurred near the time of death, suggesting the people died from blows to their heads....
This pioneering female psychologist dismissed Freud’s ‘penis envy,’ and feminists
https://timeline.com/karen-horney-psycho...8eeba642be
EXCERPT: Karen Horney might be most famous for proclaiming she never wanted a penis, thank you very much. And if you’re going to talk about her vagina, don’t forget the clitoris. The early 20th century psychoanalyst may have started as an admirer of Freud, but then he published an essay on penis envy that not only upended the field with a controversial take on child psychology, but also framed the personality development of young girls in terms of men.
Horney, an accomplished scholar and leader in an institution dominated by men, took Freud, the very founder of psychoanalysis, to task. It exposed her to a rash of criticism, and some of it turned very personal....
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/214...n-england/
EXCERPT: And you thought Game of Thrones was rough. Lower-class young men in medieval London were subjected to extreme levels of violence, far worse than other parts of medieval England.
“It appears that violence in medieval London may have been largely tied to sex and social status,” says archaeologist Kathryn Krakowka at the University of Oxford.
Krakowka analyzed 399 skulls from six London cemeteries dating from AD 1050 to 1550. [...] She found that 6.8 per cent of all skulls examined showed some kind of violence-related trauma. Males from 26 to 35 years old were particularly affected. About 25 per cent of the skull injuries occurred near the time of death, suggesting the people died from blows to their heads....
This pioneering female psychologist dismissed Freud’s ‘penis envy,’ and feminists
https://timeline.com/karen-horney-psycho...8eeba642be
EXCERPT: Karen Horney might be most famous for proclaiming she never wanted a penis, thank you very much. And if you’re going to talk about her vagina, don’t forget the clitoris. The early 20th century psychoanalyst may have started as an admirer of Freud, but then he published an essay on penis envy that not only upended the field with a controversial take on child psychology, but also framed the personality development of young girls in terms of men.
Horney, an accomplished scholar and leader in an institution dominated by men, took Freud, the very founder of psychoanalysis, to task. It exposed her to a rash of criticism, and some of it turned very personal....
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