I found myself chuckling out loud at some audio-book Wedgewood the other day. It probably wasn't actually very funny, but it tickled me at the time. It was some quote from a diplomat reporting that Johann Georg had become very heated with the consumption of much wine, or words to that effect.
― calzino, Friday, 2 February 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
attention 30yw fans! i recently discovered that cv wedgwood wrote a biography of CARDINAL RICHELIEU, and it covers much of the same territory but from the french/bourbon angle, which was sort of a sideline in the og text
and i am happy to report that her Authority and Tone is present and correct throughout
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 February 2018 08:49 (six years ago) link
for those in need of regular additional info on the territories central to this history, this twitter account is liveblogging the many regions that made up the holy roman empire. this particular episode involves an aristocratic family that named all its male children heinrich for 700 years:
Fear not, vassals, I have not forgotten you! I bring you news of the Vogtei of Greiz and Reichenbach! pic.twitter.com/OqnoQnnsLB— Empire Roman Holy (@EmpireRomanHoly) February 25, 2019
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/0R1m2i0C172V1j0F1t1F/Closed%20burgonet%20(1620).jpg
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 April 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/AxTjQj0.jpg
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 April 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
can anyone tell me what these windmills are doing on the battlefield? they look mobile.
https://i.imgur.com/0sVgi1Q.png
https://i.imgur.com/291EucF.png
both of these are from drawings of the battle of lutzen
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/pvzcc/images/2/26/Windmill_Zombie.png/revision/latest?cb=20131022024322
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
Battles happen in spaces occupied by whatever was there before it became a battle field. The odds are pretty good those windmills were put there to grind grain into flour. The armies just happened to converge in battle around them.
they look mobile.
how so?
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 May 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
i thought that too aimless and you could be right. as drawn they just don't look like permanent structures to me, and it seems odd to have several of them in a row? but i dunno
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2019 07:21 (four years ago) link
googling windmills of lutzen seems to confirm that the battle happened to take place near a miller's house and some windmills -- they do look impermanent yes but i think that may just be that the artists aren't there for photorealist reproduction of structures that are incidental to th action except as obstacles? the ones in the second pic do look to be on little stands so you can move them easily around a board -- but the entire drawing looks more like a wargaming table than an actual snapshot… and maybe it is? i mean, maybe that's what the artist set up to have something to draw?
― mark s, Thursday, 2 May 2019 07:51 (four years ago) link
I think the stands are just the bases, the bit that you can't turn to face the wind. a lot of old windmills had a v temporary look
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Meindert_Hobbema._Landscape_with_a_windmill_%2817th_century%29.jpg/800px-Meindert_Hobbema._Landscape_with_a_windmill_%2817th_century%29.jpg
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/ADC2GG/exploded-view-of-windmill-for-milling-grain-17th-century-engraving-ADC2GG.jpg
― ogmor, Thursday, 2 May 2019 08:02 (four years ago) link
ok I'm gonna reluctantly stand down on this "war windmill" idea :(
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2019 08:31 (four years ago) link
I did wonder if they could be some sort of battlefield semaphore tower but looks like they don't arrive til the early C19th
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Chappe_semaphore.jpg/441px-Chappe_semaphore.jpg
https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/v4000066/800wm/V4000066-Chappe_s_semaphore_station.jpg
― ogmor, Thursday, 2 May 2019 08:38 (four years ago) link
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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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