English variation of French Provencal Alienor, meaning unknown Description: Eleanor's straightforward feminine image combined with its royal medieval history is striking just the right note for parents in search of a girls' name that combines substance and style. ...
The story goes Marco Polo told this French guy all about his travels while he was in prison in Genoa. The first manuscript ofThe Travels of Marco Polois 13thcentury and was written in Old French. Anyway, one of the little stories[1]he heard was from his brothers Nicolas and Maffeo when...
I am suddenly understanding the jokes about Henry V not speaking French very well in the play of that title in a different, more political light. 10/ Blackadder: Here is the clip where they talk about the robe: https://twitter.com/pitchblacksteed/status/1294974184183996416?lang=en Here is ...
Early Literature was usually written in French and Latin, in later medieval times English was the dominant laguageRead more about the Medieval Literature >> Medieval Manor Both manor estates and houses were owned and controlled by a Medieval Lord.Read more about the Medieval Manor >> ...
A formidable and proud French woman, who married for political purposes, Margaret was unafraid of engaging with the factionalism of her husband’s all-male council. She fought fiercely, if not always astutely, when her son’s birthright came under attack, and made strategic alliances wherever ...
However, even if later medieval London was resilient in the face of demographic and social stress, there was some continuity of concern over the centuries. The French visitor Henri Misson, in the late seventeenth century, commented that the English (and he evidently had most of his experience ...
I think that the Normans came mostly as single males and married local wives, who raised the children as Frankish-Latin speakers, because their Danish language remained only in names (especially men’s names). Within two generations, Normans all spoke French. In some ways, they stayed culturall...
Tall and refined, with shoulders that seemed braced square by an effort of the will, and a head that was tilted a little higher than the usual level of vision, he resembled those fastidious saints who guard the portals of a French cathedral. Well educated, well endowed, and not deficient ...
Heroic narratives partially recovered include Los siete infantes de Lara (“The Seven Princes of Lara”), El cerco de Zamora (“The Siege of Zamora”), Bernardo del Carpio, and other themes from Castile’s feudal history, subject matter that echoes remote Visigothic origins rather than French ...
Heroic narratives partially recovered include Los siete infantes de Lara (“The Seven Princes of Lara”), El cerco de Zamora (“The Siege of Zamora”), Bernardo del Carpio, and other themes from Castile’s feudal history, subject matter that echoes remote Visigothic origins rather than French ...