wedgwood fans will probably like the biography of elizabeth stuart written by carola oman - it's got that same tart authority and vivid flashes of reality that swim up suddenly like a fish. i.e. this description of Marie de Medici:
"Queen Mother," as Elizabeth invariably called her, had proved a terrifying old dame with a towering coiffure of metallic gold curls and sharp features, strongly marked by rage and chagrin
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
the next sentence:
She had stayed in London until her son-in-law's subjects began to break her windows.
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
The Habsburgs offer a vision of European unity even the hardest of Brexiteers could get behind, says @RCCoulombe https://t.co/9GD2aGdnDd— Catholic Herald (@CatholicHerald) May 30, 2019
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
there will never be a cool pope until a pope excommunicates the trad caths
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
wallenstein.
funny: i had the opposite goofy experience from tracer hand re “the windmills of lutzen”. i walk thru the battles as best i can on google earth as I read; the lutzen section describes a ditch set back from the eastern road and beyond that a line of windmills, so hovering around the area and zooming in on a possible road i was excited to indeed find a parallel ditch and some ways back a line of obviously modern 20/21c wind turbines. there they are!!! i failed to keep myself from thinking.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 31 January 2021 05:46 (three years ago) link
At the beginning of the pandemic I ran through the 'Ring of Fire' series where an American town is transported back to southern Germany in 1632. Boy do they fuck up the Thirty Years War!
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Sunday, 31 January 2021 05:53 (three years ago) link
Madness and idealism flickered up among the oppressed in occasional tongues of flame. A dispossessed Protestant farmer in Austria, Martin Leimbauer, collected a band of followers by preaching and prophesying against the government. The third time his own people betrayed him, his headquarters was surrounded and he himself was dragged ignominiously from his hiding-place under the outspread skirts of two old women and carried with his young wife prisoner to Linz. Here, after declaring that God had made him his deputy on earth, he broke down under sentence of death and went to the block penitent and a Catholic. His wife, sentenced to perpetual imprisonment, escaped with the hangman’s assistant on the eve of her husband’s execution. With its gross humour, its cynical morality and its touch of spiritual grandeur, the story is typical of its time.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 31 January 2021 05:58 (three years ago) link
still living in the looooong 17th century
― mookieproof, Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:03 (three years ago) link
elector frederick, whatta dope!
― goole, Tuesday, November 11, 2014 9:29 AM bookmarkflaglink
this guy makes ned stark look like lenin
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:10 (three years ago) link
CVW is never cruel but she comes the closest when noting “the last known resting place of his coffin was a wine-merchant’s cellar at Metz”
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:16 (three years ago) link
D’jall read Tyll? I liked it!
― Canon in Deez (silby), Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:40 (three years ago) link
no that looks cool tho! haven’t read grimmelhausen either. was gonna take a look at schiller’s wallenstein trilogy to see if it would be suited for my ongoing community-focused project of proposing plays absolutely no one wants to see.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:48 (three years ago) link
grimmelshausen. i was working without a net there.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:50 (three years ago) link
"based" !!
As today is the day everybody and their aunt will quote the famous St. Francis quote "Preach the Gospel at all times. Use words if necessary"to you, it is almost painful to be THAT spoilsport and tell you... it is NOT by St. Francis. Sorry folks. As based as it sounds. pic.twitter.com/UF0pUE5ARp— Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) October 4, 2022
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 09:11 (one year ago) link