War was a dangerous business, and those who escaped death at the hands of the enemy often perished as a result of the dysentery and disease that could decimate armies.
Face that journey again in the winter. Arthur did not answer, and when she turned to look at him, she saw that
Crack of
Who does not tremble when he considers how to deal with his wife?’ asked Henry VIII in his treatise A Defence of the Seven Sacraments; ‘for not only is he bound to love her, but so to live with her th...
I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.
He was not afraid, in fact he was content to go: So much that had been pleasurable in his life was now beyond his capacity, and that he could not bear.
7. CCR; Robert of Reading; Murimuth; Dugdale, Monasticon; Annales
But he frequently drank too much, and when he was inebriated would indiscriminately let out his secret thoughts and quarrel with bystanders for feeble causes.47
Some of my subjects do not know what is good for them,
As their forces broke, the Yorkist cavalrymen raced to the horse park behind their own lines and mounted their steeds to give chase. As they thundered past, the King and Warwick, flushed with victory,...
Was I right?" she asked him. "Was I right to make a stand against what I believed to be wrong? Even though many ills have come from it? I have been asking myself this a lot lately. I must be quiet in...
Zionists exploited, exaggerated, invented, or even perpetrated anti-Semitic incidents both to procure support and to drive Jews to immigrate to the Zionist-designated homeland. A few examples are disc...
William had now to consolidate his victory and establish himself as king, but first he sent his messenger across the sea to Normandy to tell Matilda that she was now, by the grace of God, queen of Eng...
One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, ‘When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death
Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage.
Matilda managed to present William with ten children, which she probably could not have done had she been just over four feet tall.
At Sandwich, in 1579, she paid the magistrates’ wives a great compliment when, without employing a food taster, she sampled some of the 160 dishes they had prepared for her and even ordered some to be...
Recusancy,
A royal bride could come to enjoy considerable power and influence, as did both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Yet such status and power emanated solely from her husband. She enjoyed no freedoms...
Virgil had no difficulty in believing that God has visited the sins of Henry IV upon his descendant, Henry VI, yet he did not explain how this was to be reconciled with the triumphant career of Henry...