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...

[mildred_of_midgard]

By the way, if anyone cares, said advisor of mine had an interview published in a major journal last month, where she talks, among other things, about growing up behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria in the 1940s-1970s, and the difficulties of emigrating. There's a whole lot of English historical linguistics, but you can skim that part.