Eleanor’s Lovers September 26, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
Eleanor of Aquitaine (obit 1204) was a powerful and self confident woman living in an age when women were supposed to be anything but. Her home in the south of what is today France gave greater property rights to daughters and wives, property rights that Eleanor knew how to manipulate. She had some wild male […]
King Arthur In Australia? June 15, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
The Beachcombings are overjoyed as they have finally found a new aupair, an Australian tango dancer (truly). And in her honour Beach thought he would offer up today an obscure, indeed, an almost forgotten source for the Arthurian legend, a twelfth-century poem by the name of Draco Normannicus (Norman Battle Standard) with an almost impossibly […]
