But the question that led to all this: do you know if I was right about Matilda seeing her most important title as that of Empress of the Romans and the English not being too pleased about this, or if I was misremembering? A quick skim of Wikipedia did not enlighten me one way or the other.
why this period is often refered to as "the anarchy".
And unofficially, as the period "when Christ and his saints slept," which is a phrase taken from a contemporary chronicler, and is also the title of that novel to which selenak refers. If you're looking for historical fiction, cahn, Sharon Kay Penman is known for some well-received doorstoppers: Stephen & Maud, Llywelyn the Great and other Welsh princes, Richard III, and apparently some about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry, and their sons (including Richard the Lion-hearted and John) that were written after I stopped reading historical fiction of this period.
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Re: Merrie Olde England
Date: 2019-11-25 02:35 am (UTC)But the question that led to all this: do you know if I was right about Matilda seeing her most important title as that of Empress of the Romans and the English not being too pleased about this, or if I was misremembering? A quick skim of Wikipedia did not enlighten me one way or the other.
why this period is often refered to as "the anarchy".
And unofficially, as the period "when Christ and his saints slept," which is a phrase taken from a contemporary chronicler, and is also the title of that novel to which