#about joan

[friendcharity]

ABOUT JOAN 2022, dir. Laurent Larivière

[swann-song]

he really suits blue

[sesiondemadrugada]

About Joan (Laurent Larivière, 2022).

[soreheadinamblemood]

[allweknewisdead]

À propos de Joan (2022) - Laurent Larivière

La vie n'a aucun sens. Progéniture ou pas.

[youstillsaiditsname]

i think i loved you, but i guess i'll never really know

joan tierney / death cab for cutie / sylvie baumgartel / the crane wives / @araekni / khalid hosseini / lev st valentine / wendy cope / richard siken (reordered)

[girlfictions]

joan didion, “on self-respect”

[feketeribizli]

people being mean to george russell should consider their words carefully because everything he says becomes real and his actions change the course of fate

[iridescentdescendant]

joan of arc // gerard way // our lady of sorrows

[leonardcohenofficial]

bob dylan and joan baez on the closing night of the 1963 newport folk festival

[friendcharity]

ABOUT JOAN 2022, dir. Laurent Larivière

[cerealsnail]

𝕾𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖘 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖌𝖎𝖗𝖑𝖘.

kofi request for the angelic @bi-chemicalromance ♡

heavily inspired by John Everett Millais' painting, 'Joan of Arc' (1965)

[wonder-worker]

A central element of the myth of [Eleanor of Aquitaine] is that of her exceptionalism. Historians and Eleanor biographers have tended to take literally Richard of Devizes’s conventional panegyric of her as ‘an incomparable woman’ [and] a woman out of her time. […] Amazement at Eleanor’s power and independence is born from a presentism that assumes generally that the Middle Ages were a backward age, and specifically that medieval women were all downtrodden and marginalized. Eleanor’s career can, from such a perspective, only be explained by assuming that she was an exception who rose by sheer force of personality above the restrictions placed upon twelfth-century women.

-Michael R. Evans, Inventing Eleanor: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine

"...The idea of Eleanor’s exceptionalism rests on an assumption that women of her age were powerless. On the contrary, in Western Europe before the twelfth century there were ‘no really effective barriers to the capacity of women to exercise power; they appear as military leaders, judges, castellans, controllers of property’. […] In an important article published in 1992, Jane Martindale sought to locate Eleanor in context, stripping away much of the conjecture that had grown up around her, and returning to primary sources, including her charters. Martindale also demonstrated how Eleanor was not out of the ordinary for a twelfth-century queen either in the extent of her power or in the criticisms levelled against her.

If we look at Eleanor’s predecessors as Anglo-Norman queens of England, we find many examples of women wielding political power. Matilda of Flanders (wife of William the Conqueror) acted as regent in Normandy during his frequent absences in England following the Conquest, and [the first wife of Henry I, Matilda of Scotland, played some role in governing England during her husband's absences], while during the civil war of Stephen’s reign Matilda of Boulogne led the fight for a time on behalf of her royal husband, who had been captured by the forces of the empress. And if we wish to seek a rebel woman, we need look no further than Juliana, illegitimate daughter of Henry I, who attempted to assassinate him with a crossbow, or Adèle of Champagne, the third wife of Louis VII, who ‘[a]t the moment when Henry II held Eleanor of Aquitaine in jail for her revolt … led a revolt with her brothers against her son, Philip II'.

Eleanor is, therefore, less the exception than the rule – albeit an extreme example of that rule. This can be illustrated by comparing her with a twelfth century woman who has attracted less literary and historical attention. Adela of Blois died in 1137, the year of Eleanor’s marriage to Louis VII. […] The chronicle and charter evidence reveals Adela to have ‘legitimately exercised the powers of comital lordship’ in the domains of Blois-Champagne, both in consort with her husband and alone during his absence on crusade and after his death. […] There was, however, nothing atypical about the nature of Adela’s power. In the words of her biographer Kimberley LoPrete, ‘while the extent of Adela’s powers and the political impact of her actions were exceptional for a woman of her day (and indeed for most men), the sources of her powers and the activities she engaged in were not fundamentally different from those of other women of lordly rank’. These words could equally apply to Eleanor; the extent of her power, as heiress to the richest lordship in France, wife of two kings and mother of two or three more, was remarkable, but the nature of her power was not exceptional. Other noble or royal women governed, arranged marriages and alliances, and were patrons of the church. Eleanor represents one end of a continuum, not an isolated outlier."

[wwaddless]

something i've noticed about elementary is how normal the women are treated. they are not believed to be less then, they're not belittled. in fact, there's so many strong women in this show it's so?? refreshing ESPECIALLY for a 2010s show. like ofc you have sherlock complaining about joan dating people but it's NOT "she's a women looking for her worth in a man" and he really does respect and appreciate her

also the season 2 queer rep is great? ik it's all background characters but it's fun and causal and the 'gay' vs 'gey' was so funny?

idk, i think it's just really nice for a 2010s show. women are just people, that's it.

[soreheadinamblemood]

[a-small-tragedy]

Cool girl and her gay friend