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: Nancy Goldstone has nothing on this one...

[selenak]

Now I can't help imagining an English lesson of the Reformation which is all "Luther who?" and where it only started when Henry VIII wanted out of his marriage.

I wouldn't expect an American to know what the Thirty Years' War was,

Well, me neither, but like I said, Fry played in a Horrible History sketch about the Westphalian Treaty.

Re: Nancy Goldstone has nothing on this one...

[mildred_of_midgard]

Okay, well, in that case he has no excuse!

Re: Nancy Goldstone has nothing on this one...

[selenak]

Found the sketch, and it's not even from Horrible Histories, it's from "A bit of Fry and Laurie", meaning he and Hugh Laurie wrote those themselves and so one would hope did a minimum of research: here.