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Philip II marrying Anna of Austria

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HAPPY 177TH BIRTHDAY TO HER!!!!!

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All the new ppl following me cuz of that one post should know that you've come to the right place because this is in fact a Hector, son of Priam stan blog. If Prince Hector of the shining helmet has a million fans, I am one of them. If swift man-killing Hector has ten fans, I am one of them. If Hector has one fan, I am that fan. If he has no fans, then my doom has come upon me as Zeus and far-shooting Apollo must have willed it.

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They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven’t had your “third” death. You decide to find out why.

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“we need to teach media literacy in schools” guys was i really the only person paying attention in english class bffr

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Would Edward have become a tyrant if he lived longer? I think he would have been a king like Henry VII, only Protestant. Yes, he seems very extreme in his thinking to us, but I think as he matured he could have mellowed a bit. Young people see the world in black-and-white simplicity and nuance comes with maturity.

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There's a whole debate kicking off on Twitter regarding when the church of England started and it is honestly giving Ship of Theseus vibes

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When we imagine an inquisitorial court we imagine a place where you'll be condemned on made up evidence because the court just loves an excuse to torture and kill people. Very Queen of Hearts "off with his head".

But many people actually tried to have their cases redefined and transferred to an inquisitorial court instead, because they had reason to believe they'd get a fairer hearing at an inquisitorial court which operated according to higher standards for things like evidence.

I made a post about how we focus on religious persecution and treason trials at the expense of the ordinary crimes of the secular justice system and the Inquisition is a good example of that.

The Inquisition was enforcing unjust laws! Human rights were violated! But the secular justice system was violating human rights with equal enthusiasm and with less care and scrutiny.

are you fr saying the spanish inquisition wasn’t that bad 😭 so many jews and muslims were forced to convert to catholicism and then couldn’t escape conviction anyways

Let's establish what we are talking about, shall we?

What was the Spanish inquisition? It was a religious tribunal in charge of keeping the behavior of the Christian subjects of the crowns of Castile and Aragon strictly within the Catholic doctrine.

Which was a big deal, because the same monarchs that established the tribunal, made it illegal to be their subject if you weren't Catholic.

Which was a very big deal, because by the time they issued that law, about 1/6th of the current Spain and Portugal were Jewish. So this led to the infamous expulsion of the Jews and Muslims from Iberia and the creation of the Sephardic diaspora.

So how much did the inquisition have to do with such expulsion? Very little hands on intervention, besides an advisory role of its chief inquisitor. In contrast, They had A LOT to do with those who stayed.

And again, that's a big deal, because they were A LOT of people.

Unlike other pogroms against Jew people in the history of Europe, the Iberic expulsion didn't have an ethnic base: it was purely a religious matter. Basically, Jews, first, and Muslim , later, were issued an ultimatum: convert and assimilate or leave forever. And well, only 1/4th of the Jew population left the country and become the Sephardim. The majority decided to convert and stay.

And that's where the inquisition comes into play. Because they started hunting for those who could have converted just for the looks. So technically, they never were supposed to deal with Jews or Muslim, but with "Christians" who were not following the doctrine properly. So when they processed someone for being suspicious of practicing Jewish rites or whatever they were being accused of, the accused usually could get out of trouble with just some admission of guilt, some public humiliation and a bow of being a perfect Christian from that point on. It was only a few dozen cases per year where they got as far as executing someone.

And now let me be super clear: everyone involved in what I've been talking about was terrible. People being forcefully converted or facing exile was a particular low point in Spanish history. Everything was terrible and fuck the inquisition a thousand times.

But that being said, all this needs to be framed within the European religious wars of the XVI-XVII centuries. And within that framework, the Spanish inquisition numbers are almost nothing compared with the fresh hell that was going on in other countries during the time. Shit, the French killed twice more people for religious issues in a single day than the Spanish inquisition in their entire run.

So I guess my point is that yeah, the inquisition was terrible, but the fact they are the ones who get mentioned when someone talks about religion extremism nowadays, instead of the french killing hugenots, the English burning Ireland and Scotland, or whatever the hell was going on in the German states during those years, is 100% because of the English being very good at propaganda and having an axe to grind against the Spanish empire.

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“In September 1598, Elizabeth lost the last of the three men of her life, her brother-suitor-enemy Philip of Spain. For all the vagaries of their relationship, his portrait was still kept in the royal bedroom”

— Lisa Hilton, Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince 

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To clarify, Mary was Philip's first cousin once removed.

I'm seeing some comments about Philip II's marriages floating around and I think it's time for some context, because different things are getting blurred together.

So his first marriage is to a teenager, Maria Manuela. But she's the same age as him. The real problem is she's his double first cousin, making them as closely related as half-siblings. Not good! Very bad! But the blame here really lies more with the parents for arranging this marriage.

Mary I'll skip over as she's older than him and not as closely related.

Then there's Elisabeth of Valois. Yes she's 14-15 when the marriage happens and yes she was intended for his son. But to put it as gently as I can, Don Carlos is not mentally well enough for marriage. Setting aside the fact he's mentally a small child (because love and romance are not the sole preserve of the intelligent) his behaviour is erratic and volatile. It would not be responsible to marry him off to a girl of his own age. According to Patrick Williams, Elisabeth's first pregnancy was in 1564, her nineteenth year. I've seen earlier dates on Wikipedia, but I think a historian trumps Wikipedia. So yes, there is an age gap, but that's not evidence that Philip was assaulting a minor. And as early modern marriages go, theirs seems to have been happy.

And yes, Philip finally married his niece. Not good! I'm not defending it. It is incest and it is genetic Russian roulette given they're as related as half-siblings. More so given they're both already the product of cousin marriages. The family resemblance is also disturbing. But "Philip married his teenage niece" is not completely true. She was in her 21st year when she married him. 20 is by definition not a teenager. Nor is the marriage connected with her death. She died of influenza. And yes, marrying your niece is gross. But gross as it is, the two seem to have been very happy. We have every right to find it weird and disturbing but the evidence points to the two being close and compatible in terms of personality even though the marriage was genetically a terrible decision.

Did Philip fancy Elizabeth? Some historians think it probable he did. Others think the evidence isn't there. But Philip was 6 years older than Elizabeth, and by the time they met she was 21. An adult fancying another adult who is related to them through one common great great great great grandfather is small potatoes.

I'm not saying you have to like Philip II. I'm not defending inbreeding. But let's be exact with our words.

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Noble girls received confusingly mixed messages about the clothing they should choose. The clearest Biblical guidance came from the author of 1 Timothy who had advised that ‘women should dress themselves modestly and decently in suitable clothing, not with their hair braided, or with gold, pearls or expensive clothes, but with good works’. This provided justification for generations of Christian authors who associated fine clothing with sinfulness. Jean de Meun, whose Roman de la Rose was to be found in many fifteenth-century noble houses, asserted that ‘a woman who wants to be beautiful . . . wants to wage war on Chastity’. Yet devotional books routinely indicated the high status of virgin martyrs and the Virgin Mary herself by depicting them in opulent and elegant garments, like the cloth of gold dress that St Cecilia wore over her hair shirt. The upper classes believed that ‘in a well-ordered society, consumption patterns would reflect the hierarchy of status’. In 1363 parliament had even introduced sumptuary laws outlining the types of clothing permissible to those of various stations. Gentlemen whose lands were worth less than £ 100 annually were forbidden to wear silk, embroidered clothing, gold jewellery ‘or any manner of fur’, and their wives and children likewise. Knights whose land was valued at less than 200 marks annually were forbidden to wear the most expensive wools and furs or cloth of gold, and even those receiving £ 1,000 a year could only wear ermine or cloth embroidered with jewels in their headwear. Although the legislation was repealed just over a year later, as Christopher Dyer has argued, it indicates the legislators’ ‘assumption that the higher aristocracy ought to wear’ opulent apparel that distinguished them from their inferiors.

One author who tried to steer a helpful middle course was Christine de Pisan, the daughter of an Italian physician and widow of one of the secretaries of Charles V of France...In her manual, Le Trésor de la Cité des Dames, Christine advised ‘the wise princess’ to ensure that ‘the clothing and the ornaments of her women, though they be appropriately beautiful and rich, be of a modest fashion, well-fitting and seemly, neat and properly cared for. There should be no deviation from this modesty nor any immodesty in the matter of plunging necklines or other excesses.'

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Cecily Duchess of York"

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Crystal dagger uncovered in Spain, dating to around 3.000 BC

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Early modern period+dril

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