#eleventh century

[ardenrosegarden]

Certain couples offer an image of perfect harmony, at least under the pen of chroniclers who underline the pain felt at the death of a spouse. For example, Pierre Le Baud speaks of the ardent love the count Hoël felt for Hawise. After her death in 1072, he undertook a pilgrimage to Rome. Widows feel the same emotions and maintain the memory of their deceased spouse by their gifts and wish to be buried at his side. In this way, Alan III’s sudden death at the age of 43, perhaps poisoned by the Normans, dismayed his wife, Bertha of Blois, who was “struck in the heart,” according to Arthur de La Borderie. She donates riches to churches, among others to the Benedictine nuns of Saint-Georges de Rennes, in a charter whose beginning resembles a sob: “The end of the word is approaching,” said the duchess, “the warning signs announced by God mount up: nations rise against nations, kingdoms against kingdoms, and the earth is restless with great tremors. I, Bertha, countess of Brittany, and my son, Conan, frightened by these omens, distressed above all by the the death of my very sweet lord, the very illustrious Count Alan, father of my son Conan, here present, the news of whose death came yesterday and pierces our hearts, conforming to the evangelical instruction, ‘make friends with the mammon of iniquity,’ we give to Saint-Georges and to its daughters the parish of Plougasnou.”

-Laurence Moal, Duchesses: Histoire d’un pouvoir au féminin en Bretagne

[coloursofunison]

The role of the historical fiction writer #histfic #nonfiction

The role of the historical fiction writer

Up-to-date interpretations in nonfiction titles Now, I’ve made no secret of the fact that I think historical fiction writers have a duty to portray history as accurately as possible and I think this should be the most up to date interpretations of the past, and not what people were taught in the classroom at school, often quite some time ago, or what’s to be found in popular ‘history’ books…

[hermajestythetrashqueen]

Some costume designs for each arc.

[seaweedstarshine]

Okay so The Star Beast was fun and I'm hyped for Wild Blue Yonder and everything but I am shattered over the new episode of Eleventh Doctor Chronicles.

Broken Hearts is some of the best dark!Doctor Expanded Universe exploration I ever consumed, and that includes The Eleventh Doctor Year Two comics. I am sobbing. I am in tears. I am broken as thoroughly as the Doctor broke Valerie Lockwood.

Me when I can't find any Broken Hearts/Curiosity Shop stan posts to reblog or fic to read to get out the angsty energy...

(fic. I'm writing fic. and yes this is an open request for reading recs)

[eofaquitaine]

I’m anti monarchy but I feel like we (mostly usamericans) do not appreciate Maria Theresa of Austria enough. I mean not that I agree with all her policies *cough*the jewish thing*cough* but she was a fucking badass. Finished a great biography about her recently by Goldstone, and wow I was blown away by her. Like this lady had SIXTEEN children, in the 1740’s, that she delivered the same days she was managing the affairs of her state. How about her giving birth while giving orders to her general at the same time??? She was the first and only woman to rule Hapsburg lands, and due to the power dynamics she enforced with her husband she was effectively the only woman to rule the HRE. She took a broke and weakened Austrian Empire and built it back up. She held her own against the military POWERHOUSE Frederick the Great of Prussia. She practiced Enlightened Absolutism— Building and expanding education, commerce and welfare. Stayed crazy up to date with science especially medicines and vaccines. The standard of living in Austria skyrocketed under her. She took her job so seriously and she had almost zero education going into it, her ministers were dogshit and she still managed a prosperous 40 year reign. She commanded respect and loyalty in all her dominions, even those that had disliked all previous Hapsburg rulers. She refused to buckle to pressure to hand off her power to her husband or elder sons. What a woman.

[ewingstan]

So one of the more popular attempted proofs of God’s existence was formulated by St. Anselm in 1078. The argument goes that we all are able have a concept of God, i.e. the concept of a greatest possible being. According to Anselm, it would be a contradiction to conceive of a being with more positive attributes than God, as God is “the being that which no greater can exist” (Barnes, 1972, quoted. from Stanford Encyclopedia entry “Ontological Arguments”).

Now, existence is obviously an inherently positive attribute, such that a being that exists is greater than a being identical in every way except for being nonexistent. So to go back to our concept of God: if God didn’t exist, then we would have a contradiction, as we could imagine a God that did exist and was therefor greater. But God is the most perfect being, so if we could imagine a being more perfect than our concept of God, than our concept of God is not truly of God at all. Therefore, because we can conceive of God/the greatest possible being, and because existence increases greatness,

As we can all see, there are absolutely no problems with this argument. Theologically useful as this was in the eleventh, in the modern day it has a much more useful purpose: we can use the same proof to show that Amy Dallon canonically did nothing wrong.

It is well established that worm fans have professed an ability to imagine the greatest possible Amy. While these interpretations of Amy tend to differ from each other, the sheer number of fans claiming this means that someone must truly be able to conceptualize the greatest possible Amy. It is of course obvious that an Amy that was canonical to the text of worm would be greater, all things being equal, to an identical Amy that was non-canonical. Given that the perfect Amy would be 1) without sin and 2) canonical to the text, our ability to imagine the greatest possible Amy necessitates that Amy Dallon canonically did nothing wrong. Thanks Anselm!

[joeyclaire]

i love how even after falling in love with him mister 2nd century warlord continues to call him “loser liege lord”

[kraniumet]

he sold all his swag to drop this one-liner

[themarginalthinker]

points at Alfred: my little hoarder son. bookish boy.

one of the people in Elysium literally describing him to another person as 'if you have something that he wants, you don't have that thing anymore. it's already his, you're just keeping it for now'

NERDCHILD

i love you

[ferdieinceladoncity]

fire emblem is so funny to write fic for because I'm scratching my head over what the medieval equivalent of a bra would be called, or look like, and winding up on an insane deep dive into historical Middle Ages women's clothing and then remembering that it's fire emblem and they quite literally and canonically dress like this

[ardenrosegarden]

For much of the modern historiography on medieval women, any woman who exercised any sort of power or influence was considered in some way “extraordinary.” The idea that a noble-born woman could be powerful and influential without qualification was simply not something that most scholars working before 1990 could digest or, in some cases, even recognize. Hence caveats were applied to account for a woman’s power: she was an heiress; she was from a powerful family; she had an “unusual” relationship with her husband or son; she was a powerful personality; she had influential friends. The operating assumption was that for a woman to have power either she or her situation had to be remarkable or unusual. That it was common and accepted for aristocratic women to hold courts, resolve disputes, mete out punishments, make proclamations, have clients, be patrons, command men, or hold office was something that had yet to be acknowledged or assimilated. Thankfully, recent scholarship on aristocratic and royal women has abandoned the equation of “Powerful Woman = Extraordinary” and has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that elite women regularly, mundanely, routinely, exercised power of all sorts.

Amy Livingstone, Recalculating the Equation: Powerful Woman = Extraordinary

[coloursofunison]

Saxon Royal Charters from 1006-1013 #TheEarlsofMercia #histfic #nonfiction

Royal charters from 1006-1013 There are only 8 surviving charters for this period in history. They are from 1007, 1009, 1012 and 1013. It’s said that the missing years are due to interruptions caused by invasions of ‘Viking raiders’. This certainly applies to 1010-11 and 1006 when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recounts tales of Viking incursions. As is so often the case, this lack is frustrating…

[brucedinsman]

Fox's Book of Martyrs

https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/foxs-book-of-martyrs/ Edited by William Byron Forbush This is a book that will never die — one of the great English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when “a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid,” “climbed the steep ascent of heaven, ‘mid peril, toil, and pain.” “After the Bible itself, no…

[ohsweetflips]

“here there be gerblins” is like what if you couldn’t save everyone. “petals to the metal” is like what if the love was there and it couldn’t save everyone but the love was still there. “crystal kingdom” is like what if the love was there and it couldn’t save everyone and it actually made things worse but the love was there. “the eleventh hour” is like what if love started all of this but you couldn’t save everyone (you couldn’t save everyone (you couldn’t save everyone (you couldn’t save everyone (you couldn’t save everyone (you could save everyone))))). “stolen century” is like what if you could try again (what if there was love) (what if you could try again).

[annabelle--cane]

harrowhark is five foot nothing and built like a damp worm on a string and feels so strongly about keeping her face and body covered at all times that if she doesn't have access to face paint she will cover her skin with her own dried blood and she has the personality of a deeply traumatized eleventh century orphan getting shipped off to a nunnery after her parents' passing and every eligible bachelorette in the nine houses desires her carnally to such an extent that they will rewrite the course of their lives over it

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I enjoy the flags of Cornwall and Brittany in part because they look so menacing yet are so innocuous