He even earned the names’Cunning’ and ‘Universal Spider’ due to the webs of intrigue he would spin around Europe. It seems he was never happier than when he was planning his next scheme.
Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal Mistresses
February 24, 2013 By
As France emerged from the Middle Ages, the monarchy began to establish itself as a more stable institution and a curious development took place: the French kings began to install official mistresses at court. With this official status these women became parallel members of the royal family. They lived like queens, with various estates granted to them by the kings.
WHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY
April 11, 2011 By
WHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY Hobbins, Daniel THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC, Harvard University Press (2005) Abstract Joan of Arc was a courageous and combative woman, a resistance fighter who lived in a man’s world during the Middle Ages. The official records of her infamous trial […]
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