What is forgiveness worth without trust?
She wanted to order him clapped in irons, as he so deserved. But she was stopped by what she saw in the faces of the watching men: disapproval, instinctive and involuntary, but disapproval, nonetheles...
The book is Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158–1203, by Judith A. Everard,
John, watching in dismay, saw his great chance slipping through his fingers, and he swung around to demand of his father, Papa, does this mean Richard has bested you and Aquitaine is lost? Eleanor win...
I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, h...
He’d passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and then disavowing twenty years of memories. He would banish that bitch from his heart if it meant cuttin...
Indeed. But I was not thinking of his immortal soul, Matilda. I was thinking that history is chronicled by monks.
For whatever reasons—which had never interested him in his youth but which he sometimes pondered as an adult—the Angevin House had always taken Cain and Abel as role models.
Sensible men were not eager to submit themselves to the Judgement of the Almighty, and a decisive battle seemed to prove that the victor had God on his side. Most people preferred not to put the Lord’...
She might be that most unfortunate of women, a barren queen,
Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart
Messages continued to arrive from the Earl of Warwick, urging Londoners to hold firm for King Harry. Marguerite d'Anjou and her son were expected to land at any time, while from St Albans, Edward sent...
Men always think God favors their cause. I am sure Ya’qūb of Aleppo never doubted it, either.
There was even a small groundswell of sympathy for George, confined mainly among those who’d had no personal contact with him.
This was the moment he most loved about tourneying, that first glorious sortie with banners streaming, trumpets blaring, and the earth atremble with pounding hooves as hundreds of knights came togethe...
But such was her faith in Simon that it colored her faith in God; unable to conceive of defeat, she never doubted that the Lord, too, willed Simon to win, and falling asleep in Simon’s arms, she did n...
Troubles may ofttimes be so dire that they cannot get better. But they are never so dire that they still cannot get worse.
We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?
In turn, had agreed to end the continuing
Yes, there were good memories, too, thirty-seven years of good and bad. Quarrels and reconciliations. Eight cradles and too many gravestones and Rosamund Clifford and power that rivalled Caesar’s, an...
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