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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society Barbara Heller The Major Arcana focuses onA vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on womens beauty, sexuality, and behavior. What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal whats shifted over timeand what hasnt. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always