From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm.
Alison WeirTag: history eleanor-of-aquitaine bernard-of-clairvaux
After the dedication, Eleanor saw Bernard privately, probably at her own request. He came prepared to offer more spiritual comfort, thinking that she too might be suffering qualms of conscience over Vitry, but he was surprised to learn that she was not. Nevertheless, several matters were indeed troubling her, not the least the problems of her sister. She asked him to use his influence with the Pope to have the excommunication on Raoul and Petronilla lifted and their marriage recognised by the Church. In return, she would persuade Louis to make peace with Theobald of Champagne and recognise Pierre de la Chatre as Archbishop of Bourges.
Bernard was appalled at her brazen candour. In his opinion, these affairs were no business of a twenty-two-year-old woman. He was, in fact, terrified of women and their possible effects on him. An adolescent, first experiencing physical desire for a young girl, he had been so filled with self-disgust that he had jumped into a freezing cold pond
Tag: sexuality history fear-of-women eleanor-of-aquitaine bernard-of-clairvaux
Perhaps the Queen's prayers, and those of Bernard, had been efficacious, or perhaps Louise had been more attentive in bed, for during 1145--the exact date is not recorded--she bore a daughter, who was named Marie in honour of the Virgin. If the infant was not the male heir to France so desired by the King--the Salic law forbade the succession of females to the throne--her arrival encouraged the royal parents to hope for a son in the future.
Relationships between aristocratic parents and children were rarely close. Queens and noblewomen did not nurse their own babies, but handed them over at birth into the care of wet nurses, leaving themselves free to become pregnant again.
Tag: equality women history pregnancy royalty
Giraldus claimed that he had heard about Eleanor's adultery with Geoffrey from the saintly Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, who had learned of it from Henry II of England, Geoffrey's son and Eleanor's second husband. Eleanor was estranged from Henry at the time Giraldus was writing, and the king was trying to secure an annulment of their marriage from the Pope. It would have been to his advantage to declare her an adulterous wife who had had carnal relations with his father, for that in itself would have rendered their marriage incestuous and would have provided prima facie grounds for its dissolution.
Alison WeirTag: history infidelity divorce adultery royalty eleanor-of-aquitaine annulment
There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.
Michael BrooksTag: history universe cosmology physics astronomy laws-of-physics
Despre comunism:
„Tot ce am aflat după câteva mii de ani de istorie, este că cea mai bună dintre formele posibile ale conviețuirii noastre pe pământ este democrația societăților de tip occidental; că această formă a societății este plină, la rândul ei, de neajunsuri, că înlăuntrul ei este loc de mai bine, dar că în afara ei începe abitrarul, dictatura sau totalitarismul, că părăsind-o, omul și libertatea lui devin esențial amenințate. Societatea democratică de tip occidental nu s-a născut în urma unui experiment de o zi făcut pe corpul omenirii, ci reprezintă cristalizarea travaliului îndelungat al istoriei care a preluat de la fiecare generație contribuția ei la știința și tehnica organizării sociale. Gândul că un om (Lenin) sau o generație (a „revoluționarilor”) poate șterge dintr-un gest întreaga istorie a omenirii, declarând-o în numele imperfecțiunilor ei, „preistorie”, urmând ca după un alt gest să zămislească, oarecum din pământ, o nouă istorie, „cea adevărată”, poate desigur să se invească din teritoriul de umbră - de nebunie sau ignoranță - al minții noastre. Dar atunci omenirea toată va plăti această nebunie cu propria ei ființă”.
Gabriel Liiceanu, Apel către lichele
The dangers of the sea should always take precedence
over the violence of the enemy’
Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC
Tag: history wwii sea maritime ships ww2 submarine royal-navy naval
It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.
Neil MacGregorThe death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.
Jeff BezosThe claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic circles, if not beyond. Christians under the Roman Empire were neither constantly persecuted nor martyred in huge numbers for their faith. They were prosecuted from time to time for alleged sedition, holding illegal meetings or refusing to sacrifice to the emperor. They were, like other convicts, sometimes tortured and executed in horrible ways. They seem to have been regarded by many Romans with distaste as a particularly silly superstition. But Christian stories of thousands of individual and mass martyrdoms over centuries have at best a limited basis in historical fact, and in many cases are sheer fiction.
Teresa MorganTag: history fiction martyr superstition roman-empire rome martyrdom orthodox academic christian-martyrs christianity-in-rome
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