Dr Eleanor Janega

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1,236 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Aug

Dr Eleanor Janega’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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You know, they don't want anyone, they don't want anyone, like, getting ideas above Abelard's station.

But eventually they are moved to Père Lachaise because everyone kind of agrees that,

Just let them have it.

You know?

Yeah.

Like, it's not fair, right?

Like, to a certain extent, it isn't fair.

And granted, another thing that isn't fair is that I'm sure that medieval history is littered with love affairs like this.

You know, people who were desperately in love and they couldn't be together for whatever reason.

Castration goons.

Yeah, castration goons.

The requirements of an education.

And so this is one of the only times we really get to see how actual love affairs work.

Right.

Because they're both literate because they were both important.

So we keep their letters, you know, so we get to see this real agonizing.

Yeah, and it is this ongoing idea that you get from the Middle Ages of the fact that when women are good, they're better than men are.

So it's like, you know, like the Virgin Mary is this exemplum of this where it's like that's the best possible thing a human can be.

However, they have more to overcome in order to get to that.

So, you know, we'll now talk about like the Freudian virgin horror complex thing.

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