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2 giorni fa · Jeanne de la Motte-Valois. ... Il suo vero nome era Aglaé Louise Françoise Gabrielle, nata a Parigi il 17 maggio 1768 e morta a Edimburgo il 30 marzo 1803. Pretenziosa e altezzosa, ...
5 giorni fa · In the following essay, Sandra Logan examines the representation of Katherine de Valois, the ancestress of the Tudor line in two works written at the end of Elizabeth’s reign, Shakespeare’s Henry V and Drayton’s Heroicall Epistles.
1 giorno fa · Joan, aged 12, married Louis of Orléans, aged 14, at the Château de Montrichard in 1476. Louis XI was not in attendance. Joan’s handsome dowry of 100,000 gold crowns did little to induce Louis of Orléans to care for his new wife. He sobbed throughout the wedding feast, and he avoided her as much as possible over the next seven years.
5 giorni fa · In The Rule of Women Sandra Logan contrasts Shakespeare’s portrayal of Katherine de Valois with the queen’s treatment in Michael Drayton’s Englands Heroicall Epistles. The paper in Queens in Power is arguably more similar to Oakley-Brown’s as it focuses on another Classical queen, Cleopatra (‘Shakespeare’s Queen Cleopatra: An act of Translation ’ by Richardine Woodall).
3 giorni fa · While Hicks’s treatment of the international context is less developed and closer to the norm, he has some useful things to say about the interaction of English, French and Burgundian interests in the politics of the 1480s and 1490s, and provides a good account of the subsequent turning of Valois and Habsburg energies away from the affairs of England and towards a new front line in Italy.
3 giorni fa · 105,000 dead [1] The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487. The wars were fought between supporters of the House of Lancaster and House of York, two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet.
1 giorno fa · Elisabeth Moss is certainly not opposed to the comparisons her new Disney Plus series The Veil has had to classic crime film Thelma & Louise. The gripping spy thriller, penned by Peaky Blinders ...
