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: What the term Holy Roman Empire actually meant

[mildred_of_midgard]

I should also add that I don't actually *remember* German or Italian unification more than faintly, because we only covered it in the one class and I never studied it on my own (stopped at Napoleon). So don't expect me to know much about it when it comes up. But by the standards of what we covered in history in school, it got covered in more depth than most things.