being distractable

[derien]

eor has taken the day off (encouraged by LL Bean at this time of year) because he's still-or-perhaps-again not feeling well, so I slept a glorious nine hours last night, and he's still sleeping soundly. I've been up an hour, had my shower, and been jumping back and forth between reading the HolmesSlash list and Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century."


Poor France. Plague, war and brigandage, a peasant rebellion (they had every reason, they were horribly treated, but it resulted in the nobles hunting down and killing every peasant they could find without mercy). More plague.

And the nobles. Complete flipnuts. I still think Charles of Navarre was an incarnation of Loki, or possibly in league with Crowley. He'd reconcile with the current ruler and then attempt to kill him again and it's never quite clear what he hoped to get out of these plots. Just mess things around, apparently.

The next thing we're working up to is why King Jean went back into captivity in England, voluntarily. Again, motives not clear. I'm betting on him being so overwhelmed by the problems his country was facing that he just didn't know what to do and he missed the carefree days when he just hung out with English nobles. Because they never locked up their noble captives and hostages as a point of chivalry.


Ooh, Eor's up! Finally! :)

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[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor eor; hope he's feeling a bit brighter now.

Loved the potted history of French aristocracy. :-D I'll have to give that book a read. :-)

[derien.livejournal.com]

Well, I finally took him to the clinic yesterday and he got some medicine. He's been having a bout of gout. Very painful to even hobble around, but the medicine seems to be helping.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Oh, and yes, get Barbara Tuchman's book if you ever get a chance. It's kind of slow sometimes, and has taken me literally a year to get a quarter of the way through it, but I've got to admit to having a short attention span for most history. It's probably one of the best history books I've ever come across because I keep picking it up again.

(otoh, I do just have a short attention span, as witness my forgetting to finish writing my reply to you and posting just the first part.)