but tomorrow I might need him against the Normans. For example.
I laughed!
Crusaders: What kind of Christian Emperor are you anyway?
heeeee!
The irony is that Basil - who grew up to be one of the most powerful eunuch officials of the Byzantine Empire and managed to serve and survive several Emperors in a row - did not betray Romanos, but his legitimate sons did.
This sound super interesting and... I'm gonna have to wait until I'm through the German podcast and starting this one to hear the story, huh? :PP (*)
Theophanu the younger was his niece, not his daughter, plus hadn't been born in the purple at all
I totally laughed at his comparison of Theophanu with... someone I've never heard of, and the podcast guy was like "Yeah, I've never heard of her either. Anyway, that was the equivalent of Theophanu." That was great and was a very visceral way of explaining to me how not-purple Theophanu was :)
On a different note (or maybe the same note, in the sense of, things that amused me):
I mean. The readers of Voltaire's memoirs and pamphlets are not going to find themselves thinking, "Oh, I see, Fritz likes to bottom. I've read the Kinsey report, and that all checks out." !!!
LOLOLOLOLOL! The statistics are just SOMETHING ELSE.
(*) Otto III has just died, and also recently (maybe the previous episode?) is where Sylvester II became Pope and only then did I realize -- okay, this is super embarrassing but I guess I might as well admit it and amuse you guys -- that this guy "Jabert" that he's been talking about for ages and who sounded super cool and interesting but whom I had never heard of before was actually Gerbert d'Aurillac. (My brain just recognized that it sounded like (American-accented-French) Javert, okay? I'm not good at French phonetic spelling!)
(ETA: No, as you can infer, I still haven't reread Ars Magica. But now I have even more reason to!)
ETA2: Huh, it seems that Judith Tarr wrote a novel about Theophanu! I will have to read and report back! (Lol forever, Publishers Weekly didn't seem to like it at all. "But when she writes of Theophano's nuptial banquet, 'the feast dragged itself into eternity,' she could be describing this novel." Aw.)
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Date: 2023-02-08 06:45 am (UTC)but tomorrow I might need him against the Normans. For example.
I laughed!
Crusaders: What kind of Christian Emperor are you anyway?
heeeee!
The irony is that Basil - who grew up to be one of the most powerful eunuch officials of the Byzantine Empire and managed to serve and survive several Emperors in a row - did not betray Romanos, but his legitimate sons did.
This sound super interesting and... I'm gonna have to wait until I'm through the German podcast and starting this one to hear the story, huh? :PP (*)
Theophanu the younger was his niece, not his daughter, plus hadn't been born in the purple at all
I totally laughed at his comparison of Theophanu with... someone I've never heard of, and the podcast guy was like "Yeah, I've never heard of her either. Anyway, that was the equivalent of Theophanu." That was great and was a very visceral way of explaining to me how not-purple Theophanu was :)
On a different note (or maybe the same note, in the sense of, things that amused me):
I mean. The readers of Voltaire's memoirs and pamphlets are not going to find themselves thinking, "Oh, I see, Fritz likes to bottom. I've read the Kinsey report, and that all checks out." !!!
LOLOLOLOLOL! The statistics are just SOMETHING ELSE.
(*) Otto III has just died, and also recently (maybe the previous episode?) is where Sylvester II became Pope and only then did I realize -- okay, this is super embarrassing but I guess I might as well admit it and amuse you guys -- that this guy "Jabert" that he's been talking about for ages and who sounded super cool and interesting but whom I had never heard of before was actually Gerbert d'Aurillac. (My brain just recognized that it sounded like (American-accented-French) Javert, okay? I'm not good at French phonetic spelling!)
(ETA: No, as you can infer, I still haven't reread Ars Magica. But now I have even more reason to!)
ETA2: Huh, it seems that Judith Tarr wrote a novel about Theophanu! I will have to read and report back! (Lol forever, Publishers Weekly didn't seem to like it at all. "But when she writes of Theophano's nuptial banquet, 'the feast dragged itself into eternity,' she could be describing this novel." Aw.)