mfw have no one to talk to about Medieval European history irl
I dont want to talk about motorbikes or who's the hottest girl in class, I want to talk about how the Norman conquest of Britain changed everything and still affects us today, I want to talk about how the fall of Constantinople brought on the Renaissance, I want to talk about the Cathars of Southern France and
the Hussites of Bohemia
Cathars
Were they based?
Cathars deserved it, they were proto-wokes. They refused to have kids and had bisexual orgies, they also thought god was "neither mascuine or feminine", they questioned the idea of gender and other such things that sound like a 21st century tranny would have said it.
They were cringe.
As a matter of fact, I think Cathars were brought about by a demon coming into the mortal world, and recently someone summoned him again, that would explain a lot.
let's hear you talk about SEA medieval history.
in other news, i've recently found out that the Gregorian timeline is fake and gay and has a bunch of centuries added to it.
do you know this from their own writings?
i know that some of their books can be found in museums but i've never looked up what they actually contain.
I would never open their writings, tentacles probably come out of the book to turn you into a faggot
how many times were you molested by your priest, papist cuck
says the guys who invented gay women bishops
see, this is what i'm talking about - if I mentioned the Cathars irl, they'd just look at me like I'm crazy but for you guys, you just know it like the back of your hand
SEA history
its as interesting as Euro history imo but the resources arent really open to the public, you gotta really head down to the museum or dive into the library archives to find em
Who is your favourite french monarch?
inb4 Louise the saint
They didn't exist.
why, Charlemagne of course!
I like reading about the hundred years war and saga age Iceland, also a bit of the Crusades
Currently reading a book on Jeanne d'Arc but I'm seriously considering giving Sumption's series another shot despite the immense length of it all
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I read about Ancient and Medieval history exclusively. Main interests are the Late Bronze Age, Late Antiquity, Anglo-Saxon England and Byzantium from the 7-12th century. But yes, there is nobody to talk to these things about other than old Classics professors who know a million times more than me because they've memorised all Classical authors to heart.
but I'm seriously considering giving Sumption's series another shot despite the immense length of it all
I finished the final book about 2 weeks ago actually. It is a bit of a slog because it's like 4500 pages total but I read it inbetween everything. Reading other authors on the period he seems pretty highly valued and usually it's just quibbles with who some people were and where they were in some times. It's really readable.
Saint Louis. He is most known for being a great lawgiver, and hearing every subject himself, rich or poor, under a great oak.
He also won against the English in the first 100 years war (yes we had two of them), led two crusades, burned talmuds and expelled the jews, and was made a saint of the Catholic church.
very nice, wish i could afford actual books instead of reading articles and e-books
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i forgot which empress this one is referring to
I kept on thinking I needed to know more about the Medieval period and so got distracted and then stopped about 200 pages into the first book
Was the final volume as good as the rest?
Btw do you know of any good atlases for the HYW?
I just pirate everything
I usually buy books but if I need anything specific or it's stupid expensive I'll just pirate it.
i forgot which empress this one is referring to
I think it's just a general idea of a Varangian and Byzantine Princess.
Was the final volume as good as the rest?
I think so. He's a pretty consistent author. Even over the decades he's been writing it he maintains a consistent style, other than changing how he calls the Scots from Scotch to Scottish in the final book
Btw do you know of any good atlases for the HYW?
None that I know of
what is anons' general consensus on Eleanor of Aquitaine?
gets buckbroken by the Pope
kind of a bitch but funny
It's crazy that you niggas just murdered this guy's entire family and abolished their 800 year long reign because some lawyers and newspaper editors with this physiognomy told you to
i think if everyone on Anon Babble were offered an anthropology scholarship the field would unironically benefit enormously.
Aristocrats towards the end were degenerates. Nothing left in common with their forefathers. Back then in order to be a noble you had to fight, in fact the king was king precisely because he was the guy in first line on his horse in the middle of the army.
By the revolution they were all foreigners, promiscuous, homosexuals, whores, sellouts, drunks, complete degenerates on top of being terrible managers. Some people like to frame the French revolution as a commie takeover but keep in mind it also inspired the German and Italian revolutions.
he was belgian thoughever
combined power of autism cracks the meaning of life
lmao
they were very good friends tho
you ever heard the story about him getting two elephants from the Abassids, bretty random lol
I like the tradition that exists in France for the color blue
Some people like to frame the French revolution as a commie takeover but keep in mind it also inspired the German and Italian revolutions.
Is that supposed to be a good thing? Marxism and its offshoots are a direct consequence of the French Revolution. Social revolutions are always inherently inhuman and soulless. The King and the aristocracy being incompetent isn't really that big of a deal compared to a movement that wants to rename the months of the year because they're not radical enough.
National socialism and fascism are also direct consequences of the French revolution.
Extreme conservatism and reactionarism were tried in countries like Spain and Portugal, we even gave it time and as it turn out it doesn't work, it's just complete endless stagnation and the most boring pointless form of government, and as you stagnate you get late and the rest of the world moves on and you fall behind (until they eventually take over you). So it simply does not work. Either you go left or right or even but you need motion.
and as you stagnate you get late and the rest of the world moves on and you fall behind (until they eventually take over you). So it simply does not work.
Francoist Spain was objectively superior to modern Spain in every meaningful metric.
Not as important as she is made out to be. Henry II curbed her the moment she acted out of line so her day in the sun was effectively just a rebellion with her sons against Henry, which he won and she proceeded to never do anything politically meaningful again because she was a prisoner.
Liberalism, Socialism and Fascism are all children of the French revolution
Liberte - Liberalism
Egalite - Socialism
Fraternate - Fascism
knew it would devolve into this lmao
French revolution is a fun historical event to read about.
truly is, but once we move on to discussing the effects that are still felt to this day and the parallels to our own political situation right now, ehhhhh
I’m from the city named after him. Although my favorite French monarch is Phillip the Fair. Literally destroyed the Knights Templar for Jew gold lol
Close contender is King Henry VI
Her children were quite awful. Richard the Lionheart spent most of his time fighting in the crusades and died raiding some literal who’s castle. His brother Jon impoverished England with his petty wars with France. I guess it worked out because England got the Magna Carta in the end
Didn’t the French monarchy finance our revolution lol. WTF were they thinking?
yeah, let’s help prop up this experimental republic with humanist ideals. Surely our countrymen won’t get any ideas. Britain is le bad
We didn’t even pay you back lol
Many aristocrats were favorable to republican ideas, they did not know at that point that they'd end up beheaded. The most common example is how very high born ladies would invite democratic philosophers to their salons to talk about ending the monarchy. Some of those same ladies later got beheaded.
woman moment lol
They were spoiled by Lafayette who thought the Revolution would create a stable democratic republic ruled by an entrenched middle class just like America and not a crazed mob rule insane asylum ruled by whoever could whip the crowds into the most violent frenzy.
To be fair it wasn't just about taking their gold to fill the coffers, templars, much like their successors the freemasons, were in league with the jews, who were undermining the realm.
Besidest their outrageous interest rates, they also dominated the slave trade and had immense control in the south. The pope helped them too. So overall he did nothing wrong.
His minister Nogaret was also a great figure.
Norman conquest of Britain
Ah yes a history enthusiast who can't even separate the words Britain and England historically
Cathars
Retarded prince doesn't submit to the Kang.
This puts him in crosshairs.
Pope orders their removal, because they killed envoy.
??
Hussites
Bohemian nobles are fighting against their kangs.
They lose.
in the 19th century LARP as nationalists so they see themselves rebels.
Here is something you should discuss
Muslim subhumans invade Europe. They get beaten back by Christ and his warriors.
semantics, they end up taking over Wales and parts of Ireland eventually anyways - cheers to the Scots for holding them off for so long
Ah yes a history enthusiast who can't even separate the words Britain and England historically
To be fair that situation the other way around has been the the historical standard. If you look at a German or French newspaper from the early 20th century you're not going to see anything about Britain, only England.
If you look at a German or French newspaper from the early 20th century you're not going to see anything about Britain, only England.
that's different because Scotland has since been absobed into the Kingdom of England, it was different in 1066
How many Scotsmen would've referred to themselves as British in 1066?
0
So why are you complaining about the term "British" in that context? That's like complaining about the term "Byzantine" because the Byzantines didn't actually call themselves that.
To be honest outside official or formal speech we mostly refer to them collectively as English, even when they're not English
All continentals do that, you think of anyone from the British Isles as "Anglo-Saxon" unless they're from Ireland.
it's good to be accurate
foreigners are generally pretty dumb and arrogant when they talk about us, they always act like they're experts on British culture when most of them can't even nail down the difference between English and British identity