#king artus

[gailyinthedark]

I was thin on reading material here until I realized I had saved this online document to my phone after coming across the link on tumblr a while ago. It's an English translation of part of the Arthur story written in Hebrew in 1279 ad and it's fascinating. Comments to follow! (Please note that I am not very familiar with Jewish or rabbinical literature; I hope to be respectful, and welcome any correction or clarification.)

#arthuriana #medieval literature #hebrew #king artus

[enchantedbook]

Illustration for Hoffmann's 'Nutracker and the Mouse King' by Artus Scheiner, c. 1924

#artus scheiner #nutracker #illustration #mouse king

[gawrkin]

*Cue laugh track*

#im sorry #sir gawain #arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian mythology #arthurian legends #king arthur #vulgate cycle #mort artu

[yume-tsuki]

Mordred plays infront of Arthur, while the King gives an audience

still don't know how Mordred is related to Arthur in my au, but somehow he is. Here as his son. don't ask about his mom XD (it's Morgana!!!! Joke, I don't know) his dream about Merlin will probably never gets true~~ btw the red mark on Mordred's face is a stork bite

#mokushiroku no yonkishi #seven deadly sins #four knights of the apocalypse #nanatsu no taizai #king arthur #artus

[ellegadodelaeternidad]

En un mundo donde los hilos del destino se entrelazan, seis historias cautivadoras emergen como estrellas brillantes. Este libro épico te transportará a mundos asombrosos y te sumergirá en un torbellino de emociones, donde la ficción, ciencia ficción, la fantasía, el suspenso, un toque de terror, romance y los giros inesperados se unen en una sinfonía narrativa incomparable.

Artus, nuestro intrépido protagonista, navega entre la vida y la muerte, tomando decisiones que forjarán su destino en cada esquina del universo. El peso de un legado eterno descansa sobre sus hombros, mientras se aventura en una búsqueda trascendental que desafía los límites de la existencia misma. Acompañado por sus leales hijos, Ethan y Samira, cuyos propósitos y consecuencias convergen en una danza arriesgada.

En los rincones más oscuros del espacio y las galaxias infinitas, aguarda un grupo de seres misteriosos conocidos como Los Asaltantes de las Estrellas. En sus inolvidables aventuras, encabezadas por figuras enigmáticas como Magnus, Kwiniteth, Kranus y Machine, descubrirás mundos alienígenas, tecnología asombrosa y combates galácticos que te dejaran sin aliento.

Sin embargo, un villano siniestro emerge desde las sombras. Ramses Socret, cuya vida y sed de venganza lo llevan a poseer un arma única: un artefacto que alberga un alma destructiva capaz de consumir a aquellos que están perdidos en su propio tormento. Su busqueda despiadada pone a prueba a nuestros protagonistas, desvelando secretos ocultos en las entrañas de la historia.

Mientras sus pasos se mezclan con los dioses de las Mitologías Griegas y Nórdicas, el destino de todos pende de un hilo y la batalla por la supervivencia desafiará a la mismísima esencia del tiempo.

"El Legado de la Eternidad"

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#el legado de la eternidad #ramses socret #artus #libros #historia #jon snow #kit harington #king arthur #zeus #mitologia #aegon the conqueror #aegon targaryen #game of thrones #juego de tronos #marvel #diego silva

[queer-ragnelle]

someone draw lancelot/guinevere art inspired by song of songs

#king artus hebrew version of the legend my beloved #the friend voice in the poem can be arthur lmao #he supports it he literally told agravaine so bc guin is so beautiful & wonderful obviously lancelot would look respectfully #& fuck disrespectfully hehe #dont @ me im right #i just dont have time or designs for lance/guin to do this myself #but i am thinking about them

[dreamsrunfaster]

I'm sure there are ways to read The Death of King Arthur without reading Gauvain as suicidal and trusting only Lancelot to be able to kill him but like. Are there.

#tw suicide #tw suicide ideation #tw suicidality #gauvain #gawain #lancelot #the death of king arthur #la mort li roi artu #la morte d'arthur

[jewishlancelot]

angriche > jewishlancelot

#read king artus recently and had an impulse

[devilheartsblog]

Here’s Part 2 of some ideas I’m doodled for my Winx rewrite

Last post seemed to do better than I expected and I’m glad a few people enjoyed it. So here are some more things I want to work with.

I like Artu and Roxy’s relationship but I would have also liked some backstory on them and more depth. Like Gantlos said “it’s just a dog”. How did Roxy get Artu? Is he adopted or bought? Is there a reason he doesn’t like anyone outside of Roxy and Klaus?

In my rewrite, yes. Abandoned as a puppy, a kid Roxy took him in after her mother left her dad unexpectedly. She basically raised Artu and he means a lot to her, but she never socialised him since she herself isn’t social with people (so while Artu may tolerate someone’s prescence he doesn’t like being touched or seen upclose). Roxy raising Artu is also why she gets pissed and earns her fairy form but doesn’t want the fairy gig since it ended up hurting her dog, because as a fairy the wizards are after her and Gantlos hurt Artu.

Speaking of Gantlos

Gantlos my beloved you’re so fucking bland the only personality trait you have is having fucked up pointy hands and a cool hat <3

Ok in all honestly I like his apathy to animals and the Winx in general, but that also applies to the other wizards to some extent. At least you can say something about the other wizards; Orgon’s voice is top tier, Duman has really cool powers and design, Anagan’s banter with Flora’s entertaining. This one’s technically a headcannon I made cannon in the rewrite. I did my research btw.

Gantlos has a pretty intense fear of deers also called Elafiphobia, even asking Duman to not shapeshift into one. It’s pretty bad, seeing a deer gets him pretty close to a panic attack. I’m not going to spoil why but I’ll say it’s a consequence of the Great Fairy Hunt. In fact all the Wizards despite being the cause have been affected by the fairy hunt, either overall or because of a major event. Gantlos’ deer phobia is also why he doesn’t like/care about animals initially, I mean, why should he like them? Just cause they’re cute? Hah!

Apart from Riven and Musa I hate the melodrama in season 4 it’s so shit. Since in my version Sky isn’t in the story cause king stuff, Mitzi is narratively cremated and Nabu doesn’t die, on top of planning to expand on Anagan and Flora’s relationship as rivals and Anagan “flirting” with her, it’d be weird for Helia to be like “eh”. Like even if Flora can hold her own I think he’d at least be a little concerned and annoyed at Anagan.

So yeah, Helia’s conflict is having a case of Impostor syndrome because Anagan’s a foil to him; confident, extroverted, confrontational, and actually bounces off of Flora really well. (Like, I don’t ship Anagan and Flora but the people who do I don’t blame them, it sounds more interesting) Even if Flora doesn’t reciprocate Anagan’s feelings, Helia feels inadequate and is anxious Flora will lose interest and might even break up with him since he’s the anti-social poet of the group. Timmy could even help after his confidence arc in Season 2. He’s not overprotective of Flora like wanting to fight Anagan since it kinda goes against his pacifism but the narrative doesn’t care about that as much as I do :/

And lastly I think it’s be neat if we saw a more fleshed out dynamic between the Wizards, the best I can think of is when they’re protected by Syllia and Duman almost slips their plan to which Anagan says he’s being whoosy, Orgon complains about being protected by fairies while Gantlos is fine with it.

A lot of the rewrite is focused on fleshing out the wizards because I want complex villains grr, and they’re perfect for it. The Earth Fairies? They’re good but they’re dead in my rewrite soooo-

I like to think Orgon is pretty manipulative of them. Was he always like this? No, but he’s desperate to secure the disappearance of magic from Earth, and his manipulation gets worse and worse as the episodes go on, in the end being threats and guilt-tripping. He still cares but mostly how the wizards can be of service to the Black Circle. And yes Duman is his favorite because he has the best powers. Shapeshifting will always be OP and the best power in my heart.

Anyway that’s all folks. If I make a part 3 it’ll probs cover some other stuff like Jason Queen, which I like his character, it’s perfect for Musa’s development (until they made Bloom the fucking main singer like WHYYY) or perhaps talk about Klaus or Morgana, Tecna and Timmy and more about Nabu. Anyway I’ll go watch some more nostalgic minecraft videos and webtoon rants. See ya!

#winx club #winx rewrite #rewrite #winx roxy #winx gantlos #winx helia #winx orgon #winx duman #wizards of the black circle #winx specialists #art #fanart #digital art #doodles #fanfiction

[talonabraxas]

"The Kiss" by Artus Scheiner Hymn to Pan by John Keats "O thou, whose mighty palace roof doth hang From jagged trunks, and overshadoweth Eternal whispers, glooms, the birth, life, death Of unseen flowers in heavy peacefulness; Who lov'st to see the hamadryads dress Their ruffled locks where meeting hazels darken; And through whole solemn hours dost sit, and hearken The dreary melody of bedded reeds-- In desolate places, where dank moisture breeds The pipy hemlock to strange overgrowth; Bethinking thee, how melancholy loth Thou wast to lose fair Syrinx--do thou now, By thy love's milky brow! By all the trembling mazes that she ran, Hear us, great Pan! "O thou, for whose soul-soothing quiet, turtles Passion their voices cooingly 'mong myrtles, What time thou wanderest at eventide Through sunny meadows, that outskirt the side Of thine enmossed realms: O thou, to whom Broad leaved fig trees even now foredoom Their ripen'd fruitage; yellow girted bees Their golden honeycombs; our village leas Their fairest blossom'd beans and poppied corn; The chuckling linnet its five young unborn, To sing for thee; low creeping strawberries Their summer coolness; pent up butterflies Their freckled wings; yea, the fresh budding year All its completions--be quickly near, By every wind that nods the mountain pine, O forester divine! "Thou, to whom every faun and satyr flies For willing service; whether to surprise The squatted hare while in half sleeping fit; Or upward ragged precipices flit To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw; Or by mysterious enticement draw Bewildered shepherd to their path again; Or to tread breathless round the frothy main, And gather up all fancifullest shells For thee to tumble into Naiads' cells, And, being hidden, laugh at their out-peeping; Or to delight thee with fantastic leaping, The while they pelt each other on the crown With silvery oak apples, and fir cones brown-- By all the echoes that about thee ring, Hear us, O satyr king! "O Hearkener to the loud clapping shears, While ever and anon to his shorn peers A ram goes bleating: Winder of the horn, When snouted wild-boars routing tender corn Anger our huntsmen: breather round our farms, To keep off mildews, and all weather harms. Strange ministrant of undescribed sounds, That come a swooning over hollow grounds, And wither drearily on barren moors: Dread opener of the mysterious doors Leading to universal knowledge--see, Great son of Dryope, The many that are come to pay their vows With leaves about their brows! "Be still the unimaginable lodge For solitary thinkings; such as dodge Conception to the very bourne of heaven, Then leave the naked brain: be still the leaven, That spreading in this dull and clodded earth Gives it a touch ethereal--a new birth: Be still a symbol of immensity; A firmament reflected in a sea; An element filling the space between, An unknown--but no more: we humbly screen With uplift hands our foreheads, lowly bending, And giving out a shout most heaven rending, Conjure thee to receive our humble Paean, Upon thy Mount Lycean!"

[thecrenellations]

ten examples of characters calling Lymond “Francis” for the first time, or the first time on page! So many flavors of Francis feelings. Take your pick. (and let me know if I missed earlier instances)

Speakers and context:

Sybilla to the son she hasn’t seen in five years, as he breaks into her castle and sets it on fire. (first on page, The Game of Kings)

Margaret Douglas to the man who kidnapped her. They, too, haven’t seen each other in about five years. (first on page, The Game of Kings)

Christian to her anonymous friend at Threave. I normally wouldn’t count this, because she says his last name, but it’s THE REVEAL, and she calls him by his first name to Sybilla later in the chapter. (first on page, The Game of Kings) - “Francis Crawford: you’re another fool, playing Macarius with the lockjaw. I told you sound was my stock-in-trade. I’ve known your voice since I was twelve.”

Richard. The dell near Hexham. God, Francis had screamed. (first on page, The Game of Kings)

Oonagh when they wake up together and she declines to give him Artus Cholet’s name. And she’s quoting Sybilla? I desperately want to know more about that interaction. We get some information in Checkmate, but still… (genuine first Francis, presumably. Queens’ Play)

Will Scott after the Hough Isa scheme and after spilling soup on himself! (first on page, presumably not a genuine first, The Disorderly Knights)

Graham Reid Malett. What the fuck, dude. (first time directly to Francis, The Disorderly Knights) - “‘I desire,’ he said abruptly to Lymond, ‘to call you Francis. Is that permitted? It is out of affection and a … purely spiritual love.’”

Jerott after he finds Oonagh’s body. (first time on page directly to Francis. Given the context and the way the Francises begin to multiply soon after, I would believe it’s the first time he’s addressed Lymond that way in ten years. Pawn in Frankincense) - “She is more than dead, Francis. If I thought you would do it, I would beg you to go without seeing her.”

Marthe to her brother, at Volos, after he calls her his sister by reciting a poem. The turning point. (genuine first Francis, Pawn in Frankincense)

Philippa, after falling in love with her husband as they wreak sweet, lyrical havoc across the rooftops and through the traboules of Lyon. Before the rest of that night happens. (genuine first Francis, Checkmate)

#lymond #francis crawford #lymond chronicles spoilers #eight of these are devastating to me in their own ways #and then there’s Will! #and then. there’s Gabriel. #but it was necessary to include both of them #you see #poll #something i #you will note there are none from the ringed castle #that’s because it’s the ringed castle #lymond polls

[aeide-thea]

beautiful & also terrible to have the sort of brain where you find yrself at 4:30 AM looking up intersections between jewishness & arthuriana. like. fucking amazing rabbit hole but. why am i not asleep. my head hurts and my eyes are sandy.

however. some cool things (that probably some of you knew abt already, but i did not!):

King Artus – "a 'Hebrew Arthurian Romance of 1279… Judaized and transformed.' […] Although the story in 'King Artus' is fairly straightforwardly Arthur’s as we know it today, there are little touches that tie it to Jewish literature. When, for example, Arthur’s mother, the Duchess, learns that her husband is dead and she has been deceived by the shape-shifting Uther Pendragon, she tries to figure out how that could be possible. 'No sooner had he gone more than a bow-shot’s distance away from the castle than the messenger came straight to my chamber.' That bow-shot’s distance comes not from Arthurian legend but from the story of Hagar, who sits a bow-shot’s distance away from her son Ishmael when Abraham casts them out and she does not want to see her son die."

Bovo-Bukh – "a chivalric romance adapted in 1507 by Elye Bokher (Elijah Baḥur *Levita) into 650 ottava rima stanzas in Yiddish from a Tuscan version (Buovo d'Antona) of the early 14th-century Anglo-Norman original, Boeuve de Haumton. This tale of the heroic adventures of the noble Bovo, exiled from his homeland by the machinations of his murderous mother, his wanderings through the world (as far as Babylon), and the love story of Bovo and Druzyana, their separation, his triumphant return home, and the final reunion with Druzyana and their two sons, proved to be one of the most beloved tales in the Yiddish literary tradition over the course of more than two centuries."

Vidvilt – "anonymous 15th–16th-century Yiddish epic. This Arthurian romance of the chivalric adventures of Sir Vidvilt (and his father Gawain), based on Wirnt von Gravenberg's 13th-century Middle High German Wigalois, proved to be one of the most enduringly popular secular narratives in Yiddish literary history, with numerous manuscript recensions, printings (the first in an extensively expanded version by Joseph b. Alexander Witzenhausen, Amsterdam 1671), and reprintings, in rhymed couplets, ottava rima (Prague 1671–79), and prose, over the course of three and a half centuries. The anonymous poet of the earliest Yiddish version composed more than 2,100 rhymed couplets (probably in northern Italy), following Wirnt's plot rather closely through the first three-quarters of the narrative (abbreviating much and generally eliminating specific Christian reference), before offering quite a different conclusion."

Sir Gabein – "from 1788-89, a tale in which the Arthurian knight Gabein does not return to Camelot but – via Russia and Sardinia – reaches China and ultimately ascends to the Chinese imperial throne as the new emperor." slow blink.

also this is getting beyond arthuriana into just epic poetry generally but. literally all of this sounds fascinating.

anyway. literary scholar manqué.e hrs as always here at k dot tumblr dot edu obviously! however. my ear is open like a greedy shark, &c.

#me like 'i know i didn't actually properly learn german despite taking literally years of it at c— but what if i learned yiddish' #this will not happen but. 🤔 #that said: does seem like ppl have produced translations of most of this stuff altho like. i admit i DO hate reading in translation #…despite loving translation. this may sound nuts but like. i always want to be familiar with both ends of the process! /o\ #ok no really the birds are chirping. enough. hit post. #bookblogging #(i guess)

[mask131]

Arthurian myth: King Arthur (1)

Loose translation of the article "Arthur (Artus)" from Catherine Rager's "Dictionnaire des fées et des peuples invisibles dans l'Occident païen" (Dictionary of fairies and invisible people in the Pagan Occident).

ARTHUR (Artus)

Mythical king of a cycle of romans, the tales of the Round Table, also known as the Matter of Britain, which blossomed throughout all of Europe from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Among those texts, we find numerous romans by Chrétien de Troyes, and The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffroy of Monmouth, alongside its very loose translation Le Roman de Brut by Wace, itself rewrote by the priest Layamon in his poem Brut, and later, by Malory in his La Mort d'Arthur. Arthur was originally a historical warlord killed around 537 at the battle of Camlann, but he then became a super-human character identified to another Arthur, the great god of the pantheon of the Britons, and thus symbolizing the fight of the old kings of Great-Britain against the Saxon invaders.

The father of Arthur is the king Uter Pendragon who, despite his human appearance, seems to be a figuration of an Underworld king. He claims to be Constantine's descendant - the Celts, during this era, were Romanized. Arthur's half-sister is the fairy Morgane. As for his wife, the incomparable Guenievre ou Guinevere, her name means in its Welsh form (Gwenhwyfar, Gwenhwyvar) "white spirit", "white ghost". Some considered that Guenievre, who is recurringly kidnapped, is a resurgence of the Greek goddess Persephone. Their son, Llacheu, has the gift of second-sight/clearsight, as he knows the secret of material elements and of nature.

The relationships between Arthur and the Otherworld make him a magical character. In the roman of the Saxon Layamon, Brut, we see elves assist to his birth and gift him - he will be powerful, wealthy, generous and have a long life.

As many other heroes, Arthur receives his sword, Excalibur, from a supernatural creature. It is the Lady of the Lake that offers it to him. Indeed, the weapon he took away from its rock had been broken during a previous battle. Merlin, to replace it, brought the king to the shore of a lake, where an arm with white silk came out of the water, offering him the magical sword ornate with dragons - it is Excalibur, the Caladbolg of the Irish Fergus, a sword forged in Avallon. Before his death, the king will task sir Bedevere with bringing back Excalibur to the lake, where the mysterious arm appears again out of the water and takes it back. The Lady of the Lake always offers her protection to the king.

Arthur rides a black horse, a color associated to the realm of the dead: he can, as such, cross the waters that separate the afterlife from the realm of the living without his horse going wild with terror. The Book of Taliesin, a Welsh text of the 13th century, tells how the king went to the Underworld and brought back from it a magical cauldron (prefiguration of the Grail) which offers to knights an endless supply of food, but stays empty for the cowards.

Arthur is a purifying hero who gets rid of the monsters that plague the universe, just like Hercules, Theseus, Finn mac Cumhail or Cûchulainn. His first exploit was to kill the boar Twrch Trwyth which was ravaging Wales (Mabinogion of Kulwch and Olwen).

Once king, Arthur represents a solar-themed strength and wisdom. Advised by Merlin the enchanter, he establishes a rule of peace and justice (for twelve years according to some, for forty according to others), and presides at Carduel the Round Table, whose nature confirms that Arthus is both belonging to the supernatural, and an image of the Sun. His court can be found at Camelot - which might be Cadbury Castle, in the Somerset, but is before all the idealized town, the perfect city, the seat of knowledge, poetry and alchemy. The court keeps moving depending on the tales. The lord regularly sends his knights fight for just causes (and, after the Christianization of the legend, for the quest of the Grail containing the blood of the Christ), but himself rarely appears as a warrior. He sometimes even appears to figure a god of war who is above the mere battle, similarly to the goddess Badb.

For a marvelous life, a prodigious end: in his Vita Merlini, Geoffroy of Monmouth tells how the king, killed by the treacherous Mordred, his nephew and likely incestuous son, is carried on a magical boat by fairies that came from the Atlantic (where the realm of the dead is located). He is accompanied there by the Lady of the Lake and by three queens: the queen of Northern Wales, the queen of the Terre Gaste, and Morgane. Healed of his wounds by the latter, he stays with her, the Lady of the Lake, and their six sister-fairies, in the island of Avallon, "The Isle of Apples", which is sometimes a name for the Sidh/realm of the fairies, sometimes synonymous with the Blessed Islands or Fortune Isles. In Layamon's Brut, it is elves that take to Avallon the dead king, and it is the elf-queen Argante that brings him back to life. In truth, he returned to the place he belongs to, this Otherworld where there is no death, no suffering, no decadence, but only youth, feast and joy. His people hope for his messianic return, either in times of war, or simply so that he can offer them wise advice. In Cornwall, king Arthur supposedly appears in the shape of a black bird with red-colored beak and claws.

Old texts from which Rabelais took his inspiration mixed together the legend of king Arthur and the one of the giant Gargantua.

In Guillaume Apollinaire's burlesque "Arthur roi passé roi futur" (Arthur, king past, king future, 1914), king Arthur returns, wearing a shining armor, to Buckingham Palace where Georges IX is ruling. After having tested the authenticity of the ghost, Georges IX abdicates and lets the throne return to the old lord of England.

#arthurian myth #arthuriana #king arthur #arthurian legend

[gawrkin]

The Vanishing of Lancelot's Mom

One of THE most conspicuous things about the Grail Quest and the "Fall of Arthur" narratives is the utter absence of the Lady of the Lake.

Like, in Lancelot Proper, the Lady constantly aids Lancelot and Guinevere multiple times. She even helps Lancelot and Guinevere get together through the Magic Split shield; She even apologizes to Guinevere for a poorly worded letter regarding her maternal relationship with Lancelot.

Then, when the Grail Quest occurs, she just... vanishes.

The Lady is never called into question for her actions regarding the encouragement of the Affair. Neither she nor Galehaut are ever criticized by the narrative.

And when the affair is exposed, the Lady is nowhere in sight. Unlike in Lancelot Proper, Lancelot's mom never comes to Lancelot's aid. Ever. She never comes to warn Lancelot and Guinevere about what will happen or try to avert the affair's exposure. She's not there to support her son during Arthur's assault on Benoic. She's not there to save Gwen from Mordred. She's just gone.

Post-Vulgate makes it worse - it makes the Lady a guardian of King Arthur in lieu of Merlin, because Arthur was mighty defender of chivalry. And the Post-Vulgate assumes the events of Lancelot Proper happened, given the mention of Galehaut in the Suite. Which means the Lady probably supported LanceXGwen, same as before.

And again, the Lady is absent. She's not there for the Grail Quest or the Fall. She doesn't come to Arthur's aid against Mordred.

There's absolutely no intervention from the Lady of the Lake in any of these major story arcs, despite her oaths, her motives, her obligations and her relationships.

Its only with Thomas Malory, and his character Nimue, that the "Lady of the Lake" actually shows up for the Fall... right at the end. Taking Arthur to Avalon. After the final battle. That's it.

**(Note: I don't consider Lancelot's mom to be the Excalibur-giver. It doesn't happen in Vulgate. In Post Vulgate and Le Morte, Balin killed the Excalibur-giver and Nimue/Ninianne shows up later as the Damsel Huntress)

#my thoughts #vulgate cycle #lancelot-grail #mort artu #wtf arthur #arthurian literature #arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian legends #arthurian mythology #king arthur #le morte d'arthur #post-vulgate #lady of the lake

[wonder-worker]

[Agnès Sorel] has been paired with her cousin Antoinette de Maignelais in a binary relationship that flatters the former at the latter’s expense.

-Tracy Adams, "Queens, Regents, Mistresses: Reflections on Extracting Elite Women’s Stories from Medieval and Early Modern French Narrative Sources"

Different from her nineteenth-century historians, contemporary chroniclers write little that is positive about Agnès Sorel, except that she was beautiful. They are still less enthusiastic about Antoinette de Maignelais. Antoinette’s reputation worsens in seventeenth-century historical romances, where she becomes Agnès’s dark and envious double, sometimes responsible for Agnès’s death. Following Antoinette into the nineteenth century, we find nothing good about her in histories of that period, either, where she is typically depicted as motivated by the desire for wealth. […] Even some recent historians read the cousins in this way. According to one, Agnès’s “replacement was greedy and cynical;” in contrast with Agnès, who had “brightened the maturity of a fragile and tormented man, raising him above himself, Antoinette lowered him to the level of a lustful old man whose excesses outraged his entourage.”

The difference in the reputations, or afterlives, of the cousins is striking. Several factors can explain the discrepancy. The first, as I have noted, is that Antoinette later became the mistress of Duke François II. Breton chroniclers did not describe Antoinette favorably, and the relationship undoubtedly diminished her prestige, suggesting that she was motivated by greed rather than love. In contrast, Agnès died at the height of her glory, adored by the king. Another factor is the Melun diptych, commissioned from painter Jean Fouquet by one of the executors of Agnès’s will and royal favorite Etienne Chevalier, whom we have just seen with Antoinette and the king at the chateau of Ville Dieu. This gorgeous Virgin with child depicted on the left panel of the diptych is said to bear the facial features of Agnès. The image has left an enduring impression of Agnès as both pure and erotic. No image at all memorializes Antoinette, much less a fabulous one like the Melun Virgin. Still another is that Charles VII never married Agnès to anyone, which might suggest a particularly deep affection; in the eyes of historians over the years, the “double” adultery of Antoinette and the king has been regarded as the more sinful of the two relationships.

In addition to these factors, as I have noted, the king fathered none of Antoinette’s children: two of her sons, Artus and Antoine, were fathered by André de Villequier, and two sons and two daughters by Duke François II of Brittany. The king recognized his three daughters by Agnès, and all were handsomely married. This matters because Agnès’s daughters and their families took the lead in shepherding Agnès’s positive image into future generations.

...The Agnès/Antoinette binary, like its Marie/Eve counterpart, allowed the role of the royal mistress to be conceived of positively, anchoring the role in its positive guise to Agnès while pushing negative associations onto Antoinette. For the long-term effect of the binary I return to the narrative of the French royal mistress as it emerged in the nineteenth century, when Agnès and Antoinette became the two essential faces of the role: Agnès as the ideal that justifies or hides Antoinette, the political reality, or, put slightly differently, Agnès as the loving mistress persona giving cover to Antoinette, the political actor. Agnès and Antoinette, beautiful muse versus greedy opportunist, combined, offer a perfect standard for distinguishing the good mistress from the bad and promoting the good. For this reason, Antoinette’s role might be considered a sort of supplément to the role of royal mistress as realized by Agnès, who was typically assumed to have been little interested in politics. Antoinette might be seen as the active element required to complete the role; the cousins together add up to the French royal mistress of the later type.

#I love Antoinette a lot #historicwomendaily #Antoinette de Maignelais #agnes sorel #Agnès Sorel #french history #Charles VII #my post #queue

[emeraldskulblaka]

Tumblr's Top 50 Musicals: Results

I've posted the Top 50 Musicals over the last couple of days, and now it's time to look at all shows that have been submitted - 275 in total! Thank you for participating and submitting your lists, this was great fun 🎭

The scores (given in brackets) were calculated as follows: #1 received 10 points, #2 received 9 points,..., and #10 received 1 point, resulting in 55 points per entry/list. Incomplete and anonymous entries were discounted.

I ranked the musicals up to #102 (16 points), all shows which scored 15 points or less are merely listed. The logos you can see here represent musicals that weren't mentioned even once.

OVERVIEW (incl. stats) - ORIGINAL POST

1) Les Misérables (622)

2) The Phantom of the Opera (ALW) (468)

3) Hadestown (454)

4) Hamilton (326)

5) Wicked (293)

6) Newsies (218)

7) Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (213)

8) Falsettos (207)

9) SIX (205)

10) Come From Away (189)

11) Elisabeth (166)

12) Heathers (163)

13) Into the Woods (160)

14) Jesus Christ Superstar (136)

15) Little Shop of Horrors (126)

16) Sweeney Todd (124)

17) West Side Story (120)

18) Beetlejuice (113)

19) Spring Awakening (112)

20) Next to Normal (110)

21) Cats (106)

22) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (105)

23) RENT (102)

24) In the Heights (98)

25) Rebecca (92)

26) Anastasia (83)

27) Tanz der Vampire (82)

28) Legally Blonde (81)

29) Chicago (79)

30) The Sound of Music (77)

31) Moulin Rouge (73)

32) Waitress (71)

33) Fiddler on the Roof (70)

34) Jekyll and Hyde (68)

35) Company (62)

36) The Lightning Thief (60)

37) Something Rotten (57)

38) The Lord of the Rings (56)

39) Disney's Beauty and the Beast (55)

40) SpongeBob SquarePants (52)

41) Chess (51)

42) The Lion King (49)

43) Fun Home (48)

44) My Fair Lady (47)

45) Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella & A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (46)

47) Ghost Quartet & Matilda (45)

49) Be More Chill (44)

50) Cabaret (43)

51) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat & Mamma Mia! & Pippin (42)

54) The Book of Mormon & The Scarlet Pimpernel (40)

56) Dear Evan Hansen & The Rocky Horror Show (39)

58) Hairspray (38)

59) Bat Out Of Hell & The Last Five Years (37)

61) Frozen & Roméo et Juliette & The Secret Garden & Tick, Tick... Boom! (36)

65) Finding Neverland & The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals (35)

67) Amélie (34)

68) Shrek (33)

69) Sunday in the Park with George (32)

70) Carrie & Frankenstein & Godspell & Notre Dame de Paris (29)

74) Billy Elliot (28)

75) She Loves Me (27)

76) We Are the Tigers (26)

77) Assassins & Bandstand & Tuck Everlasting (25)

80) Mean Girls & Mozart das Musical & The Music Man & The Prince of Egypt (23)

84) & Juliet & Alice By Heart & Bare A Pop Opera & The Count of Monte Cristo (22)

88) Annie & Bonnie and Clyde & The Clockmaker's Daughter & Kinky Boots & Mozart L'Opéra Rock (21)

93) Big Fish & A Chorus Line & Titanic (20)

96) The Band's Visit & Starship (19)

98) Twisted (18)

99) The Addams Family & Evita & Suessical (17)

102) Anything Goes & Hello, Dolly! & Лэ о Лэйтиан (Lay of Leithian) & The Little Mermaid & Pacific Overtures (16)

15 points:

Avenue Q

Der Besuch der alten Dame

The Grinning Man

Gypsy

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The Phantom of the Opera (Y&K)

Rudolf

Starlight Express

A Very Potter Musical

14 points:

Carousel

Hair

A Little Night Music

Parade

The Prom

13 points:

The King and I

Once

Starry

The Trail to Oregon!

12 points:

Aida

American Idiot

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Head Over Heels

Lestat

Love Never Dies

Oklahoma!

School of Rock

11 points:

The Drowsy Chaperone

Mary Poppins

Rock of Ages

Ein wenig Farbe

10 points:

An American in Paris

Blood Brothers

If/Then

Linie 1

Lizzie

Oliver

Passion

Peter Pan

Phantom of the Paradise (is there a stage production?)

Последние Испытание (The Last Trial)

Ragtime

Så som i himmelen

9 points:

36 Questions

Aladdin

Artus Excalibur

Camelot

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Émilie Jolie

Evil Dead

Fangirls

In the Green

Me and My Girl

Miss Saigon

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

A New Brain

Once On This Island

Only Fools and Horses

Paint Your Wagon

Rocky

8 points:

Black Friday

The Color Purple

De drie biggetjes

Earnest Shackleton Loves Me

A Farce in Pigalle

Финрод-Зонг (Finrod Zong)

The Light in the Piazza

Merrily We Roll Along

Side Show

Spamalot

We Will Rock You

7 points:

Bright Star

Caroline, or Change

Children of Eden

City of Angels

Dracula

Das Dschungelbuch

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Grease

Groundhog Day

Lelies

Martin Guerre

Ride the Cyclone

Show Boat

South Pacific

Sunset Boulevard

Vivaldi

6 points:

9 to 5

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Candide

Catch Me If You Can

Chłopi

Don’t Stop Me

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

In Trousers

The Mad Ones

Мастер и Маргарита (Master and Margarita)

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Rumi

Sing Street

[title of show]

The View UpStairs

The Wild Party (LaChiusa)

The Wind in the Willows

5 points:

3 Musketeers

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Cry Baby

Daddy Long Legs

Death Note

The Fantasticks

Heidi

Preludes

The Spitfire Grill

The Wild Party (Lippa)

4 points:

Back to the Future

Firebringer

Follies

Jersey Boys

Once Upon a Mattress

Peter and the Starcatcher (play)

The Pirates of Penzance

Rose-Marie

Space Dogs

This Could Be On Broadway

3 points:

The Bridges of Madison County

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Show

La Cage aux Folles

Kiss Me Kate

Man of La Mancha

Octet

Songs For a New World

A Strange Loop

Varissuo

2 points:

Bad Girls

Crazy For You

Doctor Zhivago

Dolls of New Albion

Guys and Dolls

The Hello Girls

Hoy no me puedo levantar

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

A Man of No Importance

Nine

Nunsense

Orpheus in the Underworld

Pretty Woman

Road Show

Starmania

Thoroughly Modern Millie

1 point:

1789 Les Aimants de la Bastille

Bashville

Brigadoon

The Cat in the Hat

Goosebumps

Eugenius

Funny Girl

Holy Musical B@tman!

Made in Dagenham

The Man Who Laughs

Ordinary Days

The Phantom of the Opera (Alonso)

The Producers

A Shoggoth on the Roof

Sunny Afternoon

The Wedding Singer

Venice

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Zombie Prom

Thanks all x

#tumblr's top 50 musicals #tagging all participants in the comments! #if you find a mistake please let me know - it's probably a typo because points and mentions add up to the correct number #les mis #phantom of the opera #hadestown #hamilton #wicked