#janina ramirez

[richaldis]

I've just started reading Janina Ramirez' Femina which starts with a discussion about Emily Davison, the suffragette who threw herself under the King's horse at the Derby. The section is about how she and many of her peers were medivalists who revered Joan of Arc. But Ramirez also mentions the hate mail Davison got from men on her deathbed, something I didn't know. It seems the world has changed little in the last 110 years, at least when it come to a certain type of man.

[notfspurejam]

Pictures: in conversation with The League of Gentlemen star Mark Gatiss

[bookymcbookface]

“Femina, A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it” by Dr Janina Ramirez

[medievalcat]

If it is hard to get a handle on Cathars generally, then it is even more so with regards to Cathar women. Accounts are contradictory, with some stating they could hold the very highest roles within communities, while others say there was 'no great tolerance for women.' A role call of fascinating individuals come and go with passing references in inquisitorial records: Berengere 'put aside the sect of the heretics, was reconciled and received a husband.' Fabrisa kept a group of Cathars safe at her castle in Montreal, but was forced to flee from crusaders. Berbeigueira was a believer for 30 years and had to watch as her husband, on his deathbed, expelled all Cathars from their home. From these records, we can be sure that many women were drawn to Catharism.

Femina, Janina Ramirez

[theferalcollection]

TBR Clear Out: Months 2 & 3

Happy April! It’s my birthday month! And I am on a mission to read at least 3 books this month. Unfortunately between Febraury and March, I only managed 4 more off the pile. TBR Clear Out Challenge February and March Reading Stats Books Read: 3.5/15.5 Pages Read: 1,313 Average Daily Pages Read: 21.9 TBR Clear Out Challenge To Date Reading Stats Total Books Read: 7/19 Total Pages Read:…

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[hoerbahnblog]

Zeichen & Zeiten: Janina Ramirez – "Femina" – eine Rezension von Constanze Matthes

Zeichen & Zeiten: Janina Ramirez – “Femina” – eine Rezension von Constanze Matthes (Hördauer 11 Minuten) https://literaturradiohoerbahn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ZuZ-Femina-Janina-Ramirez-upload.mp3   „Es gab sie noch immer, diese Welt in ihrer erfreulichen Mittelmäßigkeit.“  „Ob nun vergessen, übersehen oder absichtlich herausgeschrieben – es ist ein Wunder, dass überhaupt weibliche…

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[zaldrizescrowned]

I hate how TG stans have interpreted Rhaenyra telling Alicent that she has to take Aegon's head as some sort of "gotcha" moment, using it as proof that Rhaenyra was always going to murder her siblings and was always a powerhungry bloodthirsty bitch.

Y'all do realise that if Rhaenyra had taken the throne peacefully, she would have had zero need to take Aegon and Aemond's lives? Yes, some nobles would've whispered and muttered that Aegon should be king, but if the family had stood strong and Aegon and Aemond would've actually supported Rhaenyra's claim, whatever rebellion there might've been brewing would've faded rapidly. For a rebellion, you need a figurehead and if there is no figurehead, there's nothing to fight for.

And yes, the smallfolk were mocking Rhaenyra when she'd just been named heir. Because that's what smallfolk do, they laugh at the nobles ruling them in good times. It's a tale old as time. But if there had been no civil war, only a peaceful transition and the traditional "bread and games" for the people during said transition, they wouldn't have given a flying fuck about who sits on the Iron Throne. As long as there is food on the table, a roof over their heads and some entertainment, smallfolk usually don't bother with highborn politics. It's only when those highborn politics fuck them over (like during a civil war or a famine or whatever) that the regular people start getting involved.

Ergo, the only reason there needs to be bloodshed and death is because the Greens created a situation in which everyone is pissed off and suffering, and the transition (or continuation) of power can only happen by the death of the opponent.

(Also, can we please also remember that Otto and the Green Council were planning to have Rhaenyra and her family murdered on Dragonstone asap after Aegon's coronation? Because they knew that what they were doing was wrong, and they knew that the transition of power they envisioned (from the 'rightful' heir to a usurper) could only happen with the death of their opponent. They are the ones who created this situation and they are very much projected their own grasping for power onto Rhaenyra.)

[hesbuckcompton-baby]

history facts!!!!!!! yes please

ANON SO TRUE!!!!

HISTORY FACT! the Bayeux Tapestry is NOT a tapestry, nor is it from Bayeux. it's an embroidery (tapestries are made on looms - this was not), and it was created by nuns in Canterbury. it may have been commissioned by Odo of Bayeux but it's not actually from there.

Bonus since we're on the topic - that guy everyone thinks is Harold Godwinson on the Bayeux Tapestry??? that ain't him.

Beneath the name 'Harold', we can see a man with an arrow in his eye, and for a long time people have assumed this was Harold Godwinson (who was King of England at the time) but it's NOT

And we know it's not him for a couple of reasons

As a general rule, the action described in the tapestry text typically appears at the end of the sentence. The man believed to be Harold is not in the right place for this to be correct

Recent examinations of the tapestry have found that the thread used to embroider the arrow in 'Harold's' eye dates back to the 19th Century. The Bayeux Tapestry was made in the 11th Century. This was not an original addition (typical Victorians, fucking with history - but that's a rant for another post)

By looking at accounts from around the time of the Battle of Hastings, we know Harold didn't die from an arrow to the eye - dude got dismembered real bad <3

So when we consider all of this, it's much more likely that the real Harold Godwinson is actually the man on the ground to the right of the figure most people label as him👍

[cinemaquiles]

Pior do ano? O fiasco de "Borderlands: o destino do universo está em jogo" (2024)

[notfspurejam]

 Mark Gatiss tells Janina Ramirez how his work as an actor comes with exciting experiences that fulfill his love and fascination of history.

[medievalcat]

Emma [of Normandy]'s control over her children, willingness to shift allegiance and adaptability to change had a huge influence on eleventh-century English politics. Wife of kings, mother of kings, landholder and game-player, Emma embodies the complexities of the decades leading up to the Battle of Hastings.

Two major recent developments have thrust Emma back into the limelight. First, a copy of the text written in her praise, the Economium Emmae Reginae, was discovered in the Devon Record Office in 2008. It had been languishing in the library of Powderham Castle for 500 years, when the holdings of Breamore Priory were claimed by the Earl of Devon after the Reformation. It then moved to the Record Office in the 1960s, but it took another 45 years for its relevance to come to light. Only one other copy of the text exists, held in the British Library. But the two texts show a major difference: the first version concludes by extolling the virtues of Emma's son with Cnut, Harthacnut, while the second praises her son with Aethelred, Edward the Confessor. Emma was hedging her bets, commissioning two versions of the same text with different outcomes.

Femina, Janina Ramirez

[spryfilm]

Final Trailer: “Borderlands” (2024)

[astronicht]

I was DMing a friend yesterday about how the lotr films (imo) do a great job of making Gondor look vaguely Carolingian — I was kind of holding it up as a positive example of intuiting and extrapolating on what Tolkien might have meant when doing adaptations — but said I wasn’t personally sure whether Tolkien was pulling from the Carolingian Empire or maybe the very shaky papacy further south or Visigoths or something. Or all of it!

Anyway then I settled in for my evening pop-nonfiction read, and got to find out why I’m always mixing up the Merovingians and Carolingians, a thing I will never do again. Bc yes they were two ruling families, but one was originally the fucking… stewards. I mean mayors. Haha.

(From The Private Lives of the Saints, Janina Ramirez, 2015. pp. 346-7)

Several points:

- I KNOW I made a post back in Rohan about how it’s very nice and wholesome that Tolkien wrote a fix-it for the brutal sack of the Saxons (Rohan*) by the big post-Roman southern kingdom but I didn’t know how thoroughly he did that. He really said what if Carolingians Gondor and Saxons et al Rohan bonded together to fight evil 💗 instead 💗

- So I don’t actually think Tolkien goes 1:1 with characters and historical figures, but I’m weeping at the idea that Boromir was a sort of Charlemagne but stuck in an AU where Charlemagne touches a magic ring and dies (despite being cool ☹️)

- Alternatively, it was actually Charlemagne’s dad who made a deal with the pope (NO idea on this one lmao good luck everyone) and seized power. Which would make Boromir something of a… potential.. Pippin figure.

Like he’s not, it’s not 1:1! But each Tolkien character does sometimes feel like an avatar of 3-5 medieval characters in a flashing and beautiful and strange palimpsest, while still utterly being themselves and not a symbol etc. it just so happens that you could, I guess? Make this argument for Boromir if you really really wanted to. Or Faramir! Charlemagne really tried to be both brothers, actually, which is— oh it’s fascinating again. Damn.

- Final incredibly important question: Wh at constellation was on Aragorn’s sword. I need to know the constellation on Aragorn’s sword immediately.

*I sound increasingly insane the further I get in these books but as… as established in previous posts there’s no English Channel in Tolkien’s world so Rohan is sort of the Saxons, Doggerland, and the Angles, Jutes, etc (English kingdoms), running up to Wales (the hill people + where Aragon goes on a Wild Hunt). God it’s so ancient aliens sounding but I cannot disavow any of this at this point.