Tudoriferous

She's the one the Woodvilles would point to when they cried - Look, we're not as common as muck, we're descended from Jacquetta of Luxembourg.

 

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'Merry at dinner and dead at supper.'

Not the usual Hallowe'en fare, but we can't leave Season 1 without discussing it since, apparently, Henry VII brought it with him!  

 

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We've reached the Sword of God and the Bonfires of the Vanities - yes, there was more than one.  Also, Savonarola must have wondered why he couldn't keep his big mouth shut.  He lives to regret it.....or rather, he doesn't. 

 

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‘The Italian Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola was a reactionary zealot and bigoted theocrat who vehemently opposed the humanism of the Florentine Renaissance.'

Well, maybe.  But first he had to be born and grow up.

 

Relevant Episode - S1 052 - Pope Alexander - Part Three | Tudoriferous

5. Cyrus II the Great | So You Think You Can Rule Persia

 

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It's time to shift our perspective. For so many previous episodes, the Ottomans have been a lurking threat, a subject of many, many failed attempts at crusades, and a constant reminder that Christendom was completely incapable of getting their act together. So why didn't the Ottoman Sultan, Bayezid II, take advantage of Western European disunity and triumphantly conquer the Christian kingdoms?

 

I mean, he'd like to, I'm sure. He just has to deal with these other borders first. And his family. And the religious establishment. And the popular preachers. And the soldiers. And his family, again. This is all starting to sound very familiar...

 

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Image: Sultan Bayezid II "the Holy" (Veli). Ottoman miniature painting, located at Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Istanbul (Inv. H 1324, Fol. 29v) Public Domain image.