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#TodayILearned what a terrible leader Henry III was. That's probably why there aren't many films or books devoted to him. Still, I'm really enjoying Costain's Plantagenet series. It's very readable, even if some of the feelings and thoughts the author attributes to these real-life characters might have involved some guesswork.

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Recent acquisitions (gifts from my friend Shawn):

📖 The Elizabethan World edited by Susan Doran and Norman Jones (my former professor)
📖 American Religious Humanism (Revised Edition) by Mason Olds

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Book mail, aka work mail, meets Ellie's standards

The illustrations in the book are genius.

... tales of bluff Norfolk farmers baffled by religious change, of drunken evenings in provincial inns and oak-panelled parlours, of saucy Norwich prostitutes and dour Dutch drainage engineers, of Cuckold the Calthorpes‘ dog and Wiggett the Hunstanton Hall fool, and of the many misadventures of Mr Prick, the unfortunately named minister of Denham. [The book]... enclosed one family‘s capacity for laughter even in the most serious times.

These are interesting, but this one didn‘t have the same appeal as the first in the series, Medieval England. Not sure if that was because I‘ve read more set during Elizabethan times, so there wasn‘t as much new to me (but plenty still was), or if it‘s because I was often reading while distracted; I expect it‘s more the latter.

Royalists were lampooned for thirsting for rewards and court positions (dreaming of being ‘mounted on horseback with golden Sausedges about their Necks‘)...

Print got there first. Seems oddly topical given the events in (some parts of) the UK this week.

They had fought and fasted, prayed and toiled for liberty, and even executed the King, but 'now the common enemy is gone, you are all like men in a mist, seeking for freedom and know not where, nor what it is'

(After the Parliamentary forces defeated the King in the English civil war)

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Three Edwards: War and State in England 1272-1377 by Michael Prestwich
📖 Early Irish Monasteries by Conleth Manning

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