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What a medieval love saga says about modern-day sexual harassment

  • Written by Lisa Bitel, Professor of History & Religion, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The tomb of Abelard and Héloise.Alexandre Lenoir, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Suddenly, popular media is saturated with stories of powerful men outed by women for behavior in the workplace. These alleged harassers seem to assume that power in the workplace grants them sexual access to anyone.

In medieval Europe, most people assumed the...

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