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: Sixteenth-century question about proposing

[cahn]

Oh duuuuuuh, Elizabethan plays! Of course! Thank you :D (This would in fact be for Mary/very early Elizabeth, but eh, for my not-extraordinarily-accurate purposes I'm willing to use later Elizabethans as sources (for me, obviously not for them) as well.)

Hm, interesting, I believe only English is referred to, but really I don't see why they couldn't read the Decameron, or even if not I'd expect them to have access to those tropes even if they hadn't personally read it.

Thank you! <3