cimorene: cartoony drawing of a woman's head in profile giving dubious side-eye (0)
Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote 2024-03-20 10:39 am (UTC)

The issue is entangled at this time, since Eleanor of Acquitaine went from the one to the other. Also the Plantagenets ruled a chunk of what is now France at the time and apparently often held court there. According to the introduction, these works contain a lot of references/analogies to Henry's court, which the author had visited for a while some years earlier.

But also, from what I know of Louis, this description doesn't seem as comically at odds with him as with Henry, but that could just be from not having read enough. (I'm a strong Anti-Henrian due to an intensive research paper on Thomas Beckett as a teenager. Not that I am pro-Beckett; I find them both awful).

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