#feuillesmortes

[broenguiraldson]

Petite randonnée d'automne

[booksandwords]

“The English possess a rare talent for breeding enemies, don’t you think? A peculiar sort of people, I find.”

Caged Birds Still Sing by FeuillesMortes/ @richmond-rex

Bless any author who is willing to write about Catherine of Valois as a woman, not simply as the start of a line. I appreciate the characterisaions for Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois here. As is only right she has the power, he is bold (authors word not mine).

[nomorechoirs]

my rec to you is jeanette winterson's lighthousekeeping or, in the case you have already read that one, mark doty's still life with oysters and lemon 🕊️x

thank you, petal!! I tried to get into a different Winterson book but it wasn't for me; I've heard great things about Lighthousekeeping so I think it's time to give her another try! Also had not heard of that Doty book, can't wait to look into it 🥰

For you, I shall rec Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy as well as The Book of Delights by Ross Gay similarly in case you've read one or the other.

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[shredsandpatches]

Moodboards: Anne of Bohemia/Richard II/Robert de Vere

"Maybe," Anne says, "Guildeluec is able to fall in love with Guilliadun because she knows that Eliduc loves her. Because Guilliadun is beautiful, of course, but also because Guildeluec can see her as Eliduc does." Out of the corner of his eye, Richard can see her blush and smile at Robert.

"No, I think you're right," Robert says. "It's possible to love someone you might not, otherwise, because the person that you love loves them."

"And you want that person to be happy," Anne continues, also wrapping an arm around Richard's waist so that she's holding him but also clasping Robert's forearm. "And because you are a part of one another, and you cannot help but share that with them."

It is very fortunate that Anne and Robert are both holding onto him, because Richard is certain that if they weren't he might ascend to the empyrean on the sheer force of his love for the two of them, and the blissful warmth of being here between them, and the knowledge that he is the most blessed of all men to have been granted two such lovers, and Anne's words have awakened something he hasn't dared to let himself want.

"I've thought of a demande," Richard says, at last, and his cheeks and the tips of his ears are burning but he thinks he will die if he doesn't pose this question.

...He breathes deeply and covers Anne's and Robert's hands with his own. "Whether three people together can enjoy the love of the body as well as that of the soul."

(from my novelthing)

[fidjiefidjie]

"Dans la vie, la gravité d'une situation est diminuée de moitié après une bonne tasse de thé!"🫖

Proverbe anglais.

Gif de Daria Khoroshavina

[lady-plantagenet]

I needed someone to cry over Anthony Woodville tonight because I just discovered he did a grand tour of Italy, visited many shrines and was even mugged at one point? During his pilgrimage, Pope Sixtus IV even honoured him with the title of ‘Defender and Director of the causes apostolique for the holy father the Pope in… Englande’ I'm... 🥺🥺 He returned to England 'filled with images of continental culture', 'imbued with the new humanism' like... 🥺🥺 What else this man didn't do? What a life!

Ahhhh 🕯🕯:’(((.

Anthony Woodville is the reason why I cry (figuratively) over Edward V so much, because you could just tell a good long reign was on the horizon, one to herald the new age with grace 🥺. There’s so much more I want to know about him! His friendship with Margaret Duchess of Burgundy for one!

I’ve been thinking about him recently actually. So we all know this poem. Well listen to this analysis:

“Daniel Poirion, in his classic study of French courtly lyric poetry, notes that poets use the description en complainte to designate a poem exhibiting ‘le mouvement strophique régulier et monotone’, creating ‘une certaine langueur’. The repeated rhymes and short lines of Woodville’s poem do exactly this. Woodville takes a French form, usually chosen to embody a lover’s distress, and redeploys it . It is simple but devastating: ‘Yet I ne went / Thus to be shent’ (‘but I never lived so as to be killed in this way’). It is not the sorrow of love and the disdain of a lady which pains him, but the utter indifference of Lady Fortune.”

Certainly reflects his continental influences! The poem when taken together with his motto: ‘Nulle la Vault’, seems to tragically betray a personal disillusionment with the fate of the future, now confirmed to him the night before his execution.

This man was such a personality that even those who hated the Woodvilles could not raise a word against him. Hell even George of Clarence sought to make amends with him before his death - for the damage he wrought onto him. A courtesy he did not extend even to his own brothers. 👀

[jezabelofthenorth]

i’ve heard that before but didn’t really understand the whole thing because my knowledge on the catholic monarchs pre 1490s isn’t great, but that isn’t definitely against the prevailing opinion h7 needed then when it sounds more mutually beneficial for two fledgling dynasties

[harritudur]

Despite the public wedding's delay, Henry and Elizabeth almost certainly had exchanged private vows, as usually occured in royal marriages. References to her as his 'wife' can be found in a royal document in late 1485.

- Elizabeth of York and her six daughters-in-law, by Retha Warnicke