Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 39

[cahn]

Last post, along with the usual 18th-century suspects, included the Ottonians; changing ideas of conception and women's sexual pleasure; Isabella of Parma (the one who fell in love, and vice versa, with her husband's sister); Henry IV and Bertha (and Henry's second wife divorcing him for "unspeakable sexual acts"). (Okay, Isabella of Parma was 18th century.)

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Re: Leopold II

[luzula]

Now, Cochrane's attitude toward footnotes, as laid out in the preface, is that most readers won't care, and those who do can write to him at his University of Chicago address, where he will be happy to tell you his source for any given claim...until his death in 1985. So I have no sources on the veracity of this episode.

OMG, what a frustrating attitude!!!