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im sorrryyyyyyyyyyy but imagine your dad the king of england (evil, inspiration for villain in robin hood) and marries you off to Llywelyn the Great when youre a teenager even though it is assured this man is going to continue rebelling against the crown to unite all of wales against your dad (evil) but you fall in love with him and he builds you your own church so you dont have to walk so far to reach one anymore

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the more i learn about Henry II's boys the more obsessed i become what a bunch of fucking goblin men.

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“everyone else has a duty to pick one side or another like in a debate on twitter. resist it! they were both as bad as each other! the fact that they didn't know it should only be added to their failings. i can't forgive either of them for thinking that the question of which one of them ruled england was so colossally important that it was okay for everyone else in the country to have such a horrible time.”

“it was a grim and futile period. […] but my feeling is that we shouldn't be distracted from the bigger truth that they [matilda and stephen] were both twats. they may not have been able to help being twats - the mores and values of the time and of their class may have made them twats. but they were twats and terrible things happened as a result. having kings is an awful system. henry i, for all his brutality, draws the eye away from this truth because he was capable and professional. […] stephen and matilda were just colossally entitled posh people whose incompatible ambitions caused enormous suffering.” (unruly)

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“it was a grim and futile period. […] but my feeling is that we shouldn't be distracted from the bigger truth that they [matilda and stephen] were both twats. they may not have been able to help being twats - the mores and values of the time and of their class may have made them twats. but they were twats and terrible things happened as a result. having kings is an awful system. henry i, for all his brutality, draws the eye away from this truth because he was capable and professional. […] stephen and matilda were just colossally entitled posh people whose incompatible ambitions caused enormous suffering.” (unruly)

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my girl wronged by the narrative, my girl haunting her own story, my girl dead in the first act, my girl the blank in between the lines, my girl the phantom of the past the apparition of the future

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Medieval Manuscripts Were Bound in Seal Skin, New Study Finds

New research reveals that Cistercian manuscripts from the 12th and 13th centuries were bound in seal skin sourced from Scandinavia and Greenland, uncovering unexpected links between monastic book production and Norse trade networks.

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you might be wondering how i managed to work my interests of cannibalism and king john into one assignment. well…

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tomb effigy of eleanor of aquitaine at fontevraud / ralph v. turner / wire/cloth mother experiment

“the single boldest act in john’s often feeble defence of normandy was his dash to mirebeau castle in july 1202, where his mother was being beseiged. an angevin monastic annal describes john as so stricken by eleanor’s death in april 1204 that it led to his abandonment of normandy. although the compiler’s chronology was weak he may have caught the depth of john’s grief.”

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The sealing of the [1241] agreement by both Senana and Gruffudd, and not just Gruffudd alone...is the only existing example of a Welsh ruler and his consort openly acting as a collaborative force in a political context.

— Danna R. Messer, The uxorial lifecycle and female agency in Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, PhD dissertation, Bangor University, 2014.

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how is he king john iii?

Assuming for a moment that Anne boleyn did escape and was never executed

How would that make this guy the rightful king of England?

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Sharon Olds, “Late Poem to My Father”

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i bet day 700 of a siege that boiled boot leather and rat meat hits like crazy

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"Put in simplest terms, Matilda was neither a king, nor a queen. The transgender nature of her career is thus an undeniable aspect of medieval and modern scholarship on Matilda. Historian Charles Beem notes, “The quasi-religious and juridical sovereignty vested in kingship was gendered male; the kings of England were represented as lions, whose image threatened blazingly from the royal arms. Thus, when a woman was vested with the sovereignty of kingship, the state did not temporarily become a queendom; the lions of England did not suddenly shed their manes upon the accession of a female ruler.” As a historical figure, [Matilda] cannot be gendered within the existing binary within through which scholarship on English monarchies desires to operate. This refusal has contributed to her liminal status in studies of both kingship and queenship. "

-Coral Lumbley, "Imperatrix, Domina, Rex: Conceptualizing the Female King in Twelfth-Century England", Medieval Feminist Forum, Volume 55, 1 (2019)

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Church of St Mary the Virgin in Tintern, Wales. The ruined church, complete with ivy-clad bell tower and overgrown graveyard, is a relic of the Middle Ages.

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you've ruined a perfectly good duchess is what you did. look at her, she has anxiety and trust issues :(

Translation:

If this agreement suggests that we have returned to the situation existing between 1156 and 1166, it above all testifies to the balance of power of the moment between the duchess and her father-in-law, obliged to make concessions which he certainly did not envisage, as not having been able to get his hands on little Arthur (whom the duchess certainly hid here for the first time), and under the threat of a rapprochement between Brittany and the Capetian monarchy. For her part, Constance had not forgotten what had happened to her and her father who, in 1166, had been forced to abdicate in favor of Henry II and hand over his daughter to him. If he had seized little Arthur in 1187, Henry II could very well have forced Constance to do as her father had done twenty-one years earlier. The Duchess certainly did not want to take the risk and was determined to keep her son even if it meant angering Henry II. But, by hiding Arthur, Constance had forced the Plantagenet to negotiate with her, which must have greatly displeased him.