#geoffrey breton

[tigerlyla-of-metinna]

Ask game!

Which actors/actresses would you headcast as your (games/books) blorbos? I know about Emhyr, so maybe Morvran and Sarah?

Ehem... EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Sorry! Thanks @bittersweetbark for sending me an ask. I do have my fan cast for Emhyr, Morvran and Sarah! I will include images @alphagravy gave me.

For Emhyr, the handsome Lee Pace. Not a stretch. He already played an emperor.

For Morvran Voorhis, I cannot think of anyone else beside his voice actor Geoffrey Breton. I mean, he already has the accent! Just give him the hair and that bored look!

And my OC Sarah, I believe Jennifer Connelly already personified her when she was in the movie The Rocketeer. Give Jennifer a youth potion and we have Sarah!

Hope you like my choices!

#tag game #my answer #emhyr var emreis #morvran voorhis #fan cast #lee pace #geoffrey breton #witcher oc #tigerlyla's oc

[movienized-com]

The Good Ship Murder

The Good Ship Murder (Serie 2023) #ShayneWard #CatherineTyldesley #ClaireSweeney #GeoffreyBreton #ZakDouglas #KarineAmbrosio Mehr auf:

Serie Jahr: 2023- Genre: Krimi / Drama / Mystery Hauptrollen: Shayne Ward, Catherine Tyldesley, Claire Sweeney, Geoffrey Breton, Zak Douglas, Karine Ambrosio, Nikolai Tsankov, Nigel Betts, Terry Bamberger, Vincent Ebrahim, Charlie Hardwick, Tommaso Basili, Karen Henthorn, James Carroll Jordan … Serienbeschreibung: Der ehemalige Polizeidetektiv Jack Grayling, der nun seinen Traum verwirklicht,…

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#Catherine Tyldesley #Claire Sweeney #Geoffrey Breton #Shayne Ward

[whencyclopedia]

Marie de France

Marie de France (wrote c. 1160-1215 CE) was a multilingual poet and translator, the first female poet of France, and a highly influential literary voice of 12th-century CE Europe. She is credited with establishing the literary genre of chivalric literature (though this is contested), contributing to the development of the Arthurian Legend, and developing the Breton lais (a short poem) as an art form. Marie's published works include:

Lais (including the Arthurian works Chevrefueil and Lanval)

Aesop's Fables (a translation from Middle English to French) and other fables

St. Patrick's Purgatory (also known as The Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick)

She was trilingual, writing in the Francien (Parisian) dialect with a command of Latin and Middle English. Her lais were developed from the earlier Breton lais poetic form and so she must have also known Celtic Breton and been acquainted with Brittany. Her works influenced later poets, notably Geoffrey Chaucer, and her imagery in St. Patrick's Purgatory would be used by later writers in depictions of the Christian afterlife.

Marie's works were popular in aristocratic circles but frequently featured lower-class characters as more worthy and noble than their supposed social superiors and always cast women as strong central characters. Her vision of female equality has led to her designation as a proto-feminist in the modern day, and her works remain as popular as they were in her lifetime.

Identity

Her actual name is unknown – `Marie de France' is a pen name given her only in the 16th century CE. All that is known of her comes from her work in which she identifies herself as Marie from France. Based on details in her work including knowledge of place names and geography, and the sources she drew from, scholars have determined that Marie spent a significant amount of time in England at the court of Henry II (r. 1154-1189 CE) and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine (l. c. 1122-1204 CE).

Scholars suggest Marie may have been Henry's half-sister who perhaps followed him from Normandy to England when he was crowned king in 1154 CE. The Lais of Marie de France are dedicated to “a noble king” who is most likely Henry II but precisely how Marie meant this dedication is unclear. Marie's poetry often features women imprisoned or otherwise poorly treated by men and this theme mirrors Henry's relationship with Eleanor.

Throughout their marriage, Henry was unfaithful to his wife numerous times and carried on an open affair with the noblewoman Rosamund Clifford. When Henry's sons rebelled in 1173-1174 CE with Eleanor's support, the king had her imprisoned for the next 16 years. This same sort of relationship, often with similar details, appears in a number of Marie's works. Further, Henry does not seem to have been as fond of poetry and poets as his wife was and so an interpretation of Marie's dedication as sarcastic is probable.

In modern-day scholarship, Marie is almost always credited with establishing the genre of chivalric literature, but this seems unlikely as her works clearly draw on a pre-existing tradition of courtly love literature whose central motifs she inverts. In courtly love poetry, the knight is seen rescuing the damsel in distress; in Marie's works, the knight is often the one who has imprisoned her in the first place or, sometimes, the one in need of rescue.

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#History #CourtlyLove #EleanorofAquitaine #Guinevere #WHE #[ #]

[ardenrosegarden]

Havoise was therefore given to Geoffrey more christiano. The chronicler’s desire to clarify this detail suggests that not all marriages were concluded in Normandy in this way at the time. And, indeed, the union (probably decided during this Breton stay in Normandy) which took place a few years later between Geoffrey’s sister and Richard was not described by Guillaume de Jumièges in the same way. Richard, receiving Judith with honors, joins her more legitimo. Richard therefore did not marry the young Breton girl more danico because, as a Christian prince, he henceforth complied with the rules fixed since the Carolingian era. Did he follow the customs that the Bretons respected?

The view taken by the Norman princes on marriage differed from that of the Bretons: Richard II, like his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather, was born from a concubine. In Brittany, a “legitimate” birth appeared to be a major condition for accession to the ducatus. The “Christian way” that Geoffrey wanted to have in uniting himself to Havoise suggests, moreover, a religious ceremony, which the Breton princes have perhaps been practicing for centuries. The meeting place chosen - the Mont - to hand over to her Norman husband suggests that Geoffrey would have liked it to be the same for his sister. This was not done, the law or the legal practices to which a woman belonged being thus questioned or even forgotten during her marriage, as if she now depended on the customs known her husband’s lands.

-Joëlle Quaghebeur, Havoise, Constance, et Mathilde, princesses de Normandie et duchesses de Bretagne

#historyedit #havoise de normandie #richard ii de normandie #geoffrey de rennes #judith de rennes #tenth century #eleventh century #my edit

[withinycu]

@2kyears

“You are a distraction I don’t need,” Geoffrey told the dark-eyed boy lying next to him. “As much as I love a good bit of sodomy I am trying to fight a war with my brother. And so far the bastard is winning."

He sat and began pulling on his breeches. He like all of Henry II's sons thought of himself more as a soldier than a prince. But he wasn't a butcher. Granted he'd raided his share of monasteries to pay his men and fill their bellies with the fat larders only men of god seemed to have. But the Barons of Brittany had never rebelled against their young Duke though they had ample reason too. His father had made Conan IV their duke and they had hated him. When they rebelled Henry II disposed of him and seized the lands for himself before giving them to Geoffrey. The Bretons were proud and with long memories. They hated the upstart Count of Anjou but had no reason yet to hate his son, he'd been tremendously careful not to give them one.

His brother Richard on the other hand seemed to him a mad dog. He'd assumed the reports from the Aquitaine nobles given to him and his brother also named Henry were exaggerated. Now he knew they were not.

He stood and reached toward Maurice. "Be a good boy and get up, you're on my shirt."

#2kyears #the middle child {geoffrey}

[ltwilliammowett]

The Lioness of Brittany

This lady from Brittany lived from 1300-1359 and her real name was Jeanne-Louise de Belleville de Clisson Dame de Montaigu. She was a noblewoman from Brittany who, as heir to her family, took over the estates and the salt trade, and later a Pirate.

She married for the first time at the age of 12, the 19-year-old Geoffrey de Châteaubriant VIII, who died in 1326, and had her first two children with him at 14 and 16. After his death, in 1328, Jeanne married Guy de Penthièvre of the House of Penthièvre, widower of Joan of Avaugour and son of the Duke of Brittany, for the protection of her children. The union was short-lived, as relatives of the ducal family, particularly from the de Blois faction, complained to the bishops of Vannes and Rennes to protect their inheritance, and an investigation was held on 10 February 1330, leading to the annulment of the marriage by Pope John XXII. Then, in the same year 1330, Olivier IV de Clisson married a very wealthy Breton. They had five children together: Maurice, Guillaume, Olivier, Isabeau († 1343) and Jeanne. In 1342, Olivier, joined the Duke of Brittany Charles de Blois in the Breton War of Succession defending Brittany against the English claimants and the forces of English sympathizer John de Montfort.

During the ensuing campaign, Olivier came under suspicion and criticism from Charles de Blois for failing to hold Vannes against the English forces so Clisson defected to the English side. January 1343, the Truce of Malestroit was signed between England and France and under the perceived safe condition of this truce Olivier and fifteen other Breton lords were invited to a tournament on French soil. He was arrested and beheaded for treason against the king. His head was sent to Nantes, where it was presented on a spit on the battlements of Bouffray Castle near Nantes. His widow, Jeanne, swore revenge on the king and Charles de Blois, who had happily supported the death sentence.

A painting of Jeanne in a mock 15th century style, part of a composition by Elsa Millet. (x)

Her revenge consisted of selling her possessions and buying a ship. Dismayed by the death of her liege lord, she quickly found a crew of 400 men and together they hunted down French merchant ships. After several successful battles, including two attacks on two castles, her ship was badly damaged and she had to flee. She found protection and support in England and from King Edward. He and Breton sympathisers gave her money and she was able to buy several war cogs, which she had painted black and fitted with red sails, the flagship was named My Revenge. Because of this appearance, the fleet received the name Black Fleet. The ships of this Black Fleet are said to have first attacked ships in the Bay of Biscay, but then advanced into the English Channel to hunt down French merchant ships, killing entire crews and leaving only a few witnesses to carry the news to the French king. This earned Jeanne the nickname "The Lioness of Brittany" or in French  “La Tigresse bretonne” (The breton tigress).

Execution of Olivier IV de Clisson. Painting attributed to Loyset Liédet, Flemish illuminator (v.1420-v.1483) in the Chronicles of Lord Jehan Froissart. (x)

She is sometimes referred to in literature as a privateer of the English, which would imply that she was subject to certain protections and obligations, but there was no known letter of marque.

In 1346, during the Crécy campaign in northern France, Jeanne used her ships to supply the English forces.

In the process, the French eventually succeeded in attacking her fleet and sinking her flagship. Jeanne and her two sons drifted at sea for five days; her son Guillaume died from the effects of the cold. Jeanne and Olivier were eventually rescued and taken to Morlaix. But this did not stop their revenge, on the contrary Jeanne continued her piracy in the Channel for another 13 years.

She probably ended her revenge in 1356, but by 1850 she had married the English nobleman, Walter Bentley, lieutenant to King Edward III until 1353 and captain of the English troops who continued to fight Charles de Blois. For his services and inheritance, both had received lands and castles in Brittany, which they were to relinquish in 1353 in order to finally achieve peace Charles de Blois. Bentley refused and was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Jeanne, tired of fighting, gave up and handed over the lands they had wanted. He was then released and in January 1357, the barony of La Roche-Moisan was granted to them. Toward the end of her life, she returned to France and has lived in Hennebont castle until the end of her life in 1359.

#naval history #female pirate #jeanne de belleville #the lioness of brittany #14th century #medieval seafaring

[dreamingrobots]

ok part two!! here we have resources on marie de france, arthuriana, chaucer, margery kempe etc. (part one here)

MARIE DE FRANCE

Marie de France https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-lays-and-fables-of-marie-de-france Love and Chivalry in the Middle Ages https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literature/articles/love-and-chivalry-in-the-middle-ages Courtly love http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item107724.html More on the lais of Marie de France. https://medieval-kingfisher.commons.yale-nus.edu.sg/2021/07/30/thelaisofmariedefrance/

On Mrs B's noselessness http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2012/06/got-your-nose-bisclavret-defaces-his.html On the werewolf's hybridity (among other things). This is my favorite essay ever. http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2011/10/werewolfs-indifference.html On Bisclavret's "prey and plunder." http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2012/06/bisclavrets-secret-diet.html Werewolves as a Metaphor for Domestic Abusers https://www.publicmedievalist.com/werewolf-abuse/ "The Lai of Bisclavret's Wife". Yes, my professor linked us to AO3. https://archiveofourown.org/works/137548?fbclid=IwAR3X8BxhTgjiG1MJ2FafGXN-1qWlSQNh4y3ZGofs7ziewgTO59GyKFkRUEA

Character analysis of Lanval http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/spring2008/daniel/lanval/lanval.htm More on Lanval. https://medieval-kingfisher.commons.yale-nus.edu.sg/2021/10/08/lanval/ Sir Launfal is a late 14th C analogue of the Lanval story by Thomas Chestre. Intro https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/laskaya-and-salisbury-middle-english-breton-lays-sir-launfal-introduction Poem https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/laskaya-and-salisbury-middle-english-breton-lays-sir-launfal

Text of Yonec,  Marie de France (translation: Judith P. Shoaf) https://people.clas.ufl.edu/jshoaf/files/yonec.pdf More on Yonec. https://medieval-kingfisher.commons.yale-nus.edu.sg/2021/10/08/yonec/ On the mal mariee. Mal-mariée – The Medieval Kingfisher (yale-nus.edu.sg)

“Comedy gold from The Toast.” http://the-toast.net/2015/09/15/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-lai-of-marie-de-france/

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

Character overview of Gawain from The Camelot Project https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/theme/gawain British Library general intro: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight Simon Armitage's intro: https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literature/articles/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-an-introduction Multiple resources for SGGK http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gawainre.htm Damian Fleming on Sir Gawain's impostor syndrome https://medievalfleming.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/sir-gawains-impostor-syndrome/?fbclid=IwAR3_ex6_oXg6N1QgY4lrBsCF9rH4OpHBtj5RiPyv8V8dbZDvzYPoKhQBVhA PDF of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the Broadview Anthology. (starts on page 7) https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cofc.edu/dist/0/550/files/2014/09/09-04-readings-1789szr.pdf

Daniel Mallory Ortberg's take on SGGK from The Toast is one of my professor’s favorite things ever: http://the-toast.net/2015/06/03/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/ Fascinating take on SGGK as told by Lady Bertilak https://uncannymagazine.com/article/green-knights-wife/?fbclid=IwAR2qpmeZf2KTvBOGnkeXCI4Zd-8IvRYRXpCXTIiKVKmMZlZcyunwprusWeY

CHAUCER’S CANTERBURY TALES

Chaucer's Middle English https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/refmideng/ Some notes on Middle English. https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literature/articles/middle-english Middle English Dictionary https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary The Great Vowel Shift https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/great-vowel-shift Open Access Companion to The Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/?fbclid=IwAR2ROvmqffM6t4og7ffZW7wlipYQRI5X9IFHgIgCt1GU4gkAr5TURH2grJo Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer website. https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/ British Library Canterbury Tales resources. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-canterbury-tales-by-geoffrey-chaucer The Chaucer Metapage filled with great resources http://chaucermetapage.org/ Luminarium http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/canterbury.htm

Medievalist.net Chaucer Resources https://www.medievalists.net/2016/01/chaucers-the-canterbury-tales-in-middle-english/ Canterbury Tales App! https://www.medievalists.net/2020/02/the-canterbury-tales-the-app/ Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages https://thebecketstory.org.uk/pilgrimage Becket's murder/martyrdom https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/martyrdom-thomas-%C3%A0-becket Some contextual background for the General Prologue. https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/general-prologue Some background on the motif of spring in the medieval romance tradition https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/spring Hear some of the GP read aloud in Middle English here http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gp.htm

Medieval scholars reading aloud! https://alanbaragona.wordpress.com/the-criyng-and-the-soun/ Interlinear translation https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/general-prologue-0 E. Talbot Donaldson's classic essay, "Chaucer the Pilgrim" https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/e-talbot-donaldson-chaucer-pilgrim The opening section of TS Eliot's poem, The Wasteland, takes its inspiration from the GP. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land

Miller’s tale context and background https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/millers-tale-0 General info about the tale, the fabliaux genre, poetic form, etc. http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng211/miller.htm https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/fabliaux Some context for the ubiquitous theme of cuckoldry in medieval literature, and the term's modern co-optation by the far right. https://going-medieval.com/2018/09/07/on-cuckolding-a-thing/

The Miller's description from the GP read aloud https://alanbaragona.wordpress.com/the-criyng-and-the-soun/the-general-prologue-the-millers-portrait-alfred-david/ The Miller's Prologue read aloud https://alanbaragona.wordpress.com/the-criyng-and-the-soun/the-millers-prologue-complete/ A section of the Miller's Tale read aloud https://alanbaragona.wordpress.com/the-criyng-and-the-soun/the-millers-tale-nicholas-seduces-alisoun/

Some background on social mobility and class conflict in England after the Black Death. https://lsaw.lib.lehigh.edu/index.php/williams/article/view/144/31

Kathy Lavezzo, "Protest, Complaint, and Uprising in the Miller’s Tale" https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/milt1/

Prioress’s Tale context and background https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/prioress-tale The Prioress' description from the GP read aloud https://alanbaragona.wordpress.com/the-criyng-and-the-soun/the-general-prologue-the-prioresss-portrait-ii-118-162-baragona/

Amy Kaufman, "Anti-Semitism Is Older Than You Think" https://www.publicmedievalist.com/anti-semitism-older-think/ The story of Little St Hugh of Lincoln https://jewinthepew.org/2015/08/27/27-august-1255-jews-accused-of-ritual-murder-of-little-saint-hugh-of-lincoln/ Emily Steiner, “The Prioress’s Tale: Relating to the Past, Imagining the Past, Using the Past” https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/prt1/

Wife of Bath context and background https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/tale Interlinear translation https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/wife-baths-prologue-and-tale-0 The WoB's Tale, lines 1073-1174, read aloud https://alanbaragona.wordpress.com/the-criyng-and-the-soun/wife-of-baths-tale-ll-1073-1124-the-wedding-night/

Carissa M. Harris, “Rape and Justice in the Wife of Bath’s Tale” https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/wobt1/  Irina Dumitrescu & Mary Wellesley discuss the WoB on their podcast, Close Encounters with Medieval Women. https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/encounters-with-medieval-women-storyteller

THE WEDDING OF SIR GAWAIN AND DAME RAGNELLE

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell Introduction https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/hahn-sir-gawain-wedding-of-sir-gawain-and-dame-ragnelle-introduction Text https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/hahn-sir-gawain-wedding-of-sir-gawain-and-dame-ragnelle

Character overview of The Loathly Lady from The Camelot Project The Loathly Lady | Robbins Library Digital Projects (rochester.edu) The Toast again. http://the-toast.net/2016/05/26/the-wedding-of-sir-gawain-and-dame-ragnell/

MARGERY KEMPE

Lynn Staley, Introduction to The Book of Margery Kempe: A New Translation, Contexts, Criticism  https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/staley-book-of-margery-kempe-introduction Mary Wellesley, "Women's Voices in the Medieval Period" https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literature/articles/womens-voices-in-the-medieval-period

Background on Margery

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-book-of-margery-kempe Images from The Book of Margery Kempe https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/early-printed-extracts-of-margery-kempes-book

"Archive find shows medieval mystic Margery Kempe's autobiography 'doesn't lie'" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/08/archive-find-shows-medieval-mystic-margery-kempes-autobiography-doesnt-lie Possible 15th C recipe meant to cure Margery's fits? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/28/recipe-found-in-medieval-mystics-writings-was-probably-for-drugges-margery-kempe  Excellent post about reading the Book as a constructed text. https://quodshe.blogspot.com/2006/04/calling-margery-kempe-crazy-and-why-it.html?fbclid=IwAR3qZP90X6cf79jmFw4V7DOE0VNJcuiwUl186mQ-avBjaiDBlpNw4ST7L5M

Irina Dumitrescu & Mary Wellesley discuss Margery Kempe on their podcast, Close Encounters with Medieval Women. https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/encounters-with-medieval-women-firebrand

MALORY AND LE MORTE D'ARTHUR

British Library Malory resources http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/englit/malory/ Legends of King Arthur https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literature/articles/the-legends-of-king-arthur Love & chivalry

#arthuriana #medieval literature #ferrous.txt

[driftwork]

names, mostly surnames (1)

let me apologise for this partial list of names in the library,  titles available on request...

, Adorno, horkheimer, anderson, aristotle, greta adorno, marcuse, agamben, acampora and acampora, althussar, lajac kovacic, eric alliez, marc auge,  attali, francis bacon (16th c), aries, aries and bejin, alain badiou, beckett, hallward, barnes, bachelard, bahktin, volshinov, baudrillard, barthes, john beattie, medvedev, henri bergson, Jacques Bidet, berkman, zybmunt bauman, burgin, baugh, sam  butler, ulrich beck, andrew benjamin and peter osbourne, walter benjamin, ernest bloch, blanchot,  bruzins,  bonnet,  karin bojs,  bourdieu,  j.d. bernal, goldsmith,  benveniste, braidotti,  brecht,  burch, victor serge, andre breton, judith butler, malcolm bull, stanley cohen, john berger, etienne balibar, david bohm, gans blumenberg, martin buber, christopher caudwell, micel callon, albert camus, agnes callard,  castoridis, claudio celis bueno, carchedi and roberts, Marisol de la cadena,  mario blaser, nancy cartwright, manual castells, mark  currie, collingwood, canguilhem, mario corti, stuart hall, andrew lowe, paul willis, coyne, stefan collini, varbara cassin, helene cixous, coward and ellis, clastres, carr, cioren,  irving copi, cassirer, carter and willians, margeret cohen,  Francoise dastur, guy debord, agnes martin,  michele bernstein, alice, lorraine dastun, debaise, Gilles Deleuze, deleuze and gattari, guattari, parnet, iain mackenzie, bignall, stivale, holland, smith, james williams, zourabichvili, paul patton, kerslake,  schuster, bogue, bryant,  anne sauvagnargues, hanjo berresen, frida beckman, johnson, gulliarme and hughes, valentine moulard-leonard, desai,  dosse, duttman, d’amico,  benoit peters, derrida, hinca zarifopol-johnston, sean gaston,  discourse, mark poster, foucault,  steve fuller, markus gabrial, rosenbergm  milchamn, colin jones,  van fraasen,  fekete,  vilem flusser, flahault, heri focillon, rudi visker, ernst fischer,  fink, faye, fuller, fiho, marco bollo, hans magnus enxensberger, leen de bolle, canetti, ilya enrenberg,  thuan, sebastion peake, mervyn peake, robert henderson, reimann, roth,  bae suah,  yabouza, marco bellatin, cartarescu, nick harkaway, chris norris, deLanda, regis debray, pattern and doniger,  soame jynens, bernard williams, descartes, anne dufourmanteille, michelle le doeuff, de certaeu , deligny, Georges Dumezil, dumenil and levy,  bernard edelman, victorverlich, berio, arendt, amy allen, de beauvior,hiroka azumi,  bedau and humphreys,  beuad,  georges bataille, caspar  henderson,  chris innes,  yevgeny zamyatin,  louis aragon, italo calvino, pierre guirard,  trustan garcia, rene girard, paul gilroy, michal gardner,  andre gorz, jurgan gabermas, martin gagglund, beatrice hannssen, jean hyppolyte, axel honneth, zizek and crickett, stephen heath,  calentin groebner, j.b.s. haldane,  ian hacking,  david hakken,  hallward and oekken,  haug, harman, latour, arnold hauser, hegel, pippin, pinksrd, michel henry, louis hjelmslev,  gilbert hardin, alice jardine, karl jaspers, suzzane kirkbright, 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#names #ideology and discourse #everyday practices

[liminalpsych]

Appendix A in Faletra's translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain

I wanted to cover these too, but they're mostly excerpts so I don't want to cover them individually.

Part of the reason I got Michael Faletra's translation of the History of the Kings of Britain was its appendices. (I believe it's also one of the more recent translations, from 2008, and that was the othe reason.)

I already posted about Vita Merlini, because that's included in its entirety. Everything else is excerpts. Appendix A is focused on historical sources that Geoffrey of Monmouth drew on for his History.

Gildas, the Ruin of Britain (De Exicidio Britanniae)

The intro description of the Isle of Britain, which Faletra included it to illustrate how Geoffrey pulled almost verbatim from Gildas for parts of the History. The excerpt continues on with a lot of deriding Britain (and I believe this is mostly Breton specifically, aka Wales and southern England, but I'm not sure): "Since the days of its earliest settlement, Britain has been over-proud in mind and spirit, rebellious against God, against its own citizens, and even occasionally against kings and peoples from across the sea." Gildas focuses on the history of Britain from the days of the Roman emperors, "describing the evils that Britain has infliced upon others."

He writes from a very Christian perspective, and mostly focuses on Christian martyrs and various saints. This is one of the more lengthier excerpts that Faletra includes in the appendices,covering a significant chunk of time that Geoffrey also covers and pulled from Gildas very directly, minus most of the moralizing. (Weirdly. You'd think Geoffrey would do more moralizing, but I suppose he was only kind of a priest, having been given a bishop position eight days after a quick ordination as a priest, probably as a reward because the Normans liked his History.)

Pseudo-Nennius, The History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum)

Faletra writes that pseudo-Nennius "seems to have been doing recovery work, wanting to get the facts and stories that he knew on the historical record before his source materials, whether oral or written, were lost forever." It has less rhetorical polish and often offers multiple accounts or versions of an event, and pseudo-Nennius tries to organize the disparate sources. Geoffrey pulls heavily from the History of the Britons for his own Historia, namely for the founding of Britain and the stories of Merlin/Ambrosius and Vortigern, and then expands upon it.

This one is clunkier to read, and more dry. It's a lot of very quick summaries, no poetic turns of phrase. Like Gildas, pseudo-Nennius also desn't seem to have a very high opinion of the Bretons and talks a lot about them being sinful.

I'll cover Appendix B (focused on Merlin) in a separate post.

#michael faletra #geoffrey of monmouth #pseudo-nennius #nennius #merlin #arthuriana #arthurian literature #arthurian newbie #gildas #historia brittonum #de excidio britanniae

[histoireettralala]

The year in which Normandy collapsed

The year 1204 cannot quite claim to be the annus mirabilis of Philip Augustus- that must be reserved for his triumphs of 1214- but the year in which Normandy collapsed must run it close. With the fall of Château-Gaillard, Plantagenet Normandy fell apart. Town after town, castle after castle surrendered. As with Les Andelys, so with Rouen, Philip worked his way around the target, gradually isolating it. The capital had always been his eventual target in the duchy. He first aimed against southern Normandy, moving along the River Risle. He thus foiled John's attempt to defend the River Touques, and then moved on to te valley of the Orne, making what has been called "a brilliant left-hook."

In three weeks during May Philip took Argentan and Falaise, and reaching the Normandy coast near St. Pierre-sur-Dives. Lupescar, who commanded the supposedly impregnable Falaise, surrendered within a week, and went over to Philip. Like Geoffrey of Anjou before him, Philip captured the central block of the duchy before closing in for the kill at Rouen. Domfront, Caen, Bayeux and Lisieux fell into his hands as western Normandy collapsed. Caen, standing amidst fertile fields and meadows, offered no resistance at all. It did not possess enough in the treasury to pay for its own defence, and the Plantagenet archives for the duchy were smuggled away to England. In the far west of Normandy, Philip's Breton allies under Guy de Thouars took both Mont-Saint-Michel and Avranches, then joined the French king at Caen.

Now only Arques and Rouen in the east offered resistance in Normandy. Rouen, the major objective, was protected by double walls and triple ditches, but by now morale was low and isolation increasing. Having gained control of most of the surrounding area, the French closed in. Philip captured the barbican at the head of the bridge, and the citizens of Rouen themselves destroyed four arches of the bridge in a vain effort to prevent the French from crossing.

Philip had arrived at Rouen in May of 1204. On 1 June the Norman capital, under John's "trusty and well-beloved" Peter des Préaux, agreed to yield to Philip if no aid was received within thirty days. The city was given no hope from John and surrendered on 24 June, even before the time of the agreement was up. Normandy's fate was settled, the whole duchy was in the hands of the Capetian king, which in the words of William the Breton, "was something one had never thought possible in any circumstances."

How far John was responsible for the loss of Normandy and much of the continental Plantagenet Empire has been a matter of some debate. Warren has defended John, while Gillingham has blamed him, suggesting that so long as the Lionheart was alive the Angevin Empire was in good health.

Obviously there were various factors at play in the fall of the duchy, and there is no single explanation, which means that all the blame cannot be placed upon John. Professor Bates has seen the 'fall' of Normandy, from an independent principality, as a more gradual process. He has suggested, at least by implication, that the duchy only 'rose' and was powerful when the French monarchy was weak. The practice of Norman magnates in going over to the enemies of the dukes was not a new phenomenon and cannot alone be the explanation of John's failure; problems for the dukes from families based in the border areas had never been absent. Yet the suspicion remains that things were badly managed by John and made worse than they otherwise would have been.

The Angevin Empire had never broken out of the framework of being, with regard to its continent possessions, always in some way under the lordship of the kings of France. The absorption of Normandy into a larger political entity in both the 'Norman Empire' of the Conqueror and his immediate successors, and into the Angevin Empire of Henry II and his sons, meant that the duke was no longer able to concentrate solely on ruling Normandy. His presence was less, his interests often elsewhere. Through most of the twelfth century the duke was in no sense even a Norman. It is not surprising if loyalty to an increasingly remote ruler had waned through that period.

King John's aged mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, who had done what she could to prop up his position, died on 1 April 1204. This seriously weakened his hold on the duchy of Aquitaine. Men from the south, who had come to respect the often-present Richard, and who had remained loyal while Eleanor was still alive, were without the same sense of duty to her younger son, and now rushed to do homage to Philip. The collapse of the southern Angevin Empire in 1204 was as much a voluntary surrender as a conquest.

Jim Bradbury- Philip Augustus, King of France, 1180-1223

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[jeanchristophegilbert]

Bonjour,

Au milieu du milliard de tombereau quotidien de posts de nouveaux experts sur l’IA, j’aime bien retrouver mes vieux copains que je suis depuis quelques décennies. Yann le Cun en fait partie. Il est français et charge de l’IA chez Facebook depuis belle levrette. J’ai donc copié / collé un excellent article de Futura & Sciences (totalement illisible sur leur site au passage) que j’ai trouvé vachement bien. Le lien est en pied.

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L'intelligence artificielle peut conduire l'humanité vers un « nouveau siècle des Lumières », selon Yann LeCun

ChatGPT ? Terminé dans 5 ans… L'intelligence artificielle aujourd'hui ? Nulle ! Mais elle peut conduire l'humanité à un « nouveau siècle des Lumières ». C'est le lauréat du prix ACM Turing, et actuellement directeur de recherche de l'IA chez Meta, Yann LeCun, qui l'affirme. Autant dire que le Français sait de quoi il parle puisque ce visionnaire est considéré comme l'un des pères de l'IA et du deep learning, son domaine de prédilection. Un pionnier qui a foi en la recherche et dénonce « l'obscurantisme » de ceux qui veulent la freiner à des fins mercantiles et peu philanthropiques.

En 30 ans, bravant les doutes de beaucoup de ses pairs, ce pionnier a vu son domaine de recherche s'imposer comme le plus novateur du siècle, au cœur de toutes les IA d'aujourd'hui. Modèles de langage, IA génératrices de contenus mais aussi voitures autonomes, reconnaissance faciale, diagnostics prédictifs… autant de technologies qui en découlent

Avec chatGPT, lancé en novembre 2022, et les autres IA génératives, même le grand public connaît le concept et a compris le potentiel des ordinateurs capables d'apprendre. Consécration suprême, en 2019, le Breton a reçu le prix Turing, l'équivalent du Nobel pour l'informatique. Formé à l'université Pierre et Marie Curie à Paris, puis professeur à New York, ce sexagénaire jovial, qui réfléchit à grande vitesse, a été recruté par Mark Zuckerberg en personne en 2013, dans les couloirs d'un colloque. Depuis, il dirige le laboratoire de recherche en IA du groupe Meta (Facebook, Instagram).

Sur le chemin des « machines apprenantes »

Marqué à 9 ans par 2001, l'Odyssée de l'espace, le film de Stanley Kubrick sur les dangers d'un ordinateur conscient, il se passionne très tôt pour les premiers ordinateurs personnels. À 21 ans, le débat entre le linguiste américain Noam Chomsky et le psychologue suisse Jean Piaget sur l'inné et l'acquis dans l'intelligence l'oriente sur le chemin des « machines apprenantes ». Recruté en 1988 par Bell Labs, il tente d'appliquer cette technique émergente à la reconnaissance d'écriture sur les chèques manuscrits. Taux de réussite: 50 %. Bell jette l'éponge. La technologie est jugée complexe et trop gourmande en puissance de calcul. Yann LeCun, lui, persiste. En 2003, avec les chercheurs Geoffrey Hinton et Yoshua Bengio, il fomente ce qu'il appellera une « conspiration des réseaux de neurones », pour relancer l'intérêt de la communauté scientifique, grâce à des conférences. En 2012, leurs efforts paient enfin : Hinton et d'autres scientifiques remportent un concours sur la reconnaissance d'images, avec un programme fondé sur le deep learning. La masse de données disponibles sur Internet et l'augmentation de la puissance des microprocesseurs vont rendre son rêve possible. « Du jour au lendemain, les gens ont abandonné tout ce qu'ils faisaient pour utiliser ces modèles », s'est souvenu Yann LeCun pour Libération. « Je n'ai jamais vu ça dans la science ». 

Un pionnier optimiste et enthousiaste qui revendique sa différence 

Au point de faire un peu peur à certains de ses collègues. En mai 2023, son comparse et colauréat du prix Turing Geoffrey Hinton, 75 ans, a quitté Google en expliquant « regretter » son invention, qui pourrait « être un risque pour l'humanité ». Cet été, un collectif de scientifiques, patrons et experts — dont les grands noms Elon Musk et Sam Altman — a réclamé une pause de six mois dans la recherche en IA qui, selon eux, menace l'existence même de l'humanité.

Ce n'est pas le cas de Yann LeCun, athée rationaliste, qui reste convaincu des bienfaits de l'IA et du progrès en général. « L'idée même de vouloir ralentir la recherche sur l'IA s'apparente à un nouvel obscurantisme », a-t-il déclaré. Les leaders de la tech veulent, selon lui, « semer la peur » pour conserver le monopole et leur business.

“Les humains ont du bon sens alors que les machines, non ”

À rebours de l'engouement mondial, il martèle ses réserves envers les IA génératrices. « L'IA d'aujourd'hui et l'apprentissage automatisé sont vraiment nuls. Les humains ont du bon sens alors que les machines, non. Je ne crains pas que l'IA échappe à notre contrôle et conduise à la destruction de l'humanité ». 

ChatGPT ? Pour lui, c'est « une impasse », un modèle de prédiction statistique dont on ne se servira plus « dans 5 ans ». Son employeur Meta a pourtant lancé des IA similaires. Mais Yann LeCun garde sa différence. Et y croit dur comme fer. « Avec l'aide de l'IA vont être amplifiées l'intelligence et la créativité de tout un chacun. Cela peut conduire à un nouveau siècle des Lumières ».

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[wikiuntamed]

On this day in Wikipedia: Monday, 6th November

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[ardenrosegarden]

By comparison, the Melrose chronicler was more favorable in his description of the Scottish King and mentioned that William “quibusdam militiarum probitatibus attemtatis” while he was in France. These “honourable” deeds may have been alluding to attending Henry at the negotiations with the Bretons at Fougères particularly since William did not discuss Northumbria with Henry until he followed the King to Caen after the campaign. William would have been an ideal ambassador at Fougères from Henry’s point of view because of his vulnerability concerning Northumbria. Henry could pressure William to put aside any misgivings he might have felt about witnessing the removal of his brother-in-law, Conan IV, and his sister from power by dangling the carrot of Northumbria. William may even have had a hand in negotiating Conan’s withdrawal from Brittany in favour of Conan’s daughter, Constance, who was betrothed to King Henry’s son, Geoffrey. Ultimately, the negotiations did not go well for William or Conan. Conan lost his duchy and was confined to his lordship at Guingamp until his death and William was not granted Northumbria.

-Melissa Pollock, The Lion, the Lily, and the Leopard: The Crown and Nobility of Scotland, France, and England and the Struggle for Power (1100-1204)

#historyedit #twelfth century #william the lion #margaret of huntingdon #konan iv #my edit

[kurtlukiraz]

The Good Ship Murder'ın kalbinde dinamik olan/olmayacaklar mı? Bu hafta, yolcu gemisi şarkıcısı Jack (Shayne Ward) suç çözücü ortağının nişanını kabullenmekte zorlanırken daha da kötüye gidiyor.Geminin ikinci zabiti Kate'in (Catherine Tyldesley) denizci arkadaşı Piers (Geoffrey Breton) ile ilişkisi vardır, ancak bir cinayet onları bir araya getirdiğinden beri kendisi ve Jack arasında kimya kıvılcımları uçmaktadır.Jack, Kanal 5'in izniyle RadioTimes.com okuyucularına yayınlanan aşağıdaki özel klipte görüldüğü üzere, yarın akşamki bölümde (3 Kasım Cuma) gerçek duygularını saklamakta zorlanacak.Bu soğuk sohbetin ardından ikilinin açık denizlerdeki kötülükleri araştırmaya devam edip etmeyeceği, hatta birbirleriyle dostluklarını sürdürüp sürdüremeyecekleri de zaman gösterecek.Aşağıdan izleyin:Klipte Jack, Kate'i ilişkisinde yeterince eğlenmemekle suçlarken, Kate de Kate'in performansını asla bırakmadığını ve partiden ne zaman ayrılması gerektiğini öğrenmesi gerektiğini söylüyor.Gerçekten de her bölüm, yolcu gemisi şarkıcısının tıka basa dolu bir salona verdiği bir müzik numarasıyla bitiyor; aktör Ward bunu dizinin filme alınacak "fantastik" bir parçası olarak tanımlıyor.Söyledi RadyoTimes.com ve diğer basın: "İzleyicinin olmaması ya da izleyicinin olması gibi bir seçenek vardı ve ben 'İzleyiciye ihtiyacım var' dedim.Bilgilerinizi girerek şunları kabul etmiş olursunuz: Şartlar ve koşullar Ve Gizlilik Politikası. Aboneliğinizi istediğiniz zaman iptal edebilirsiniz."Aynı zamanda sanatçı kökenli biri olarak, bu şekilde gerçekten canlanıyorsunuz, çünkü kalabalığın enerjisinden besleniyorsunuz... Onları sahnede çalarken bir çığlık duydum ve umarım bu duyulur."The Good Ship Murder'ın bu ilk yolculuğunda kat edilecek daha çok kilometre var; ilk sezonu toplamda sekiz bölümden oluşuyor ve bu da bizi Aralık ayının başına kadar götürecek.İyi Gemi Cinayeti, 3 Kasım 2023 Cuma günü saat 21.00'de Kanal 5'te devam ediyor. Drama haberlerimize göz atın veya neler olduğunu öğrenmek için TV Rehberimizi ve Yayın Rehberimizi ziyaret edin.Radio Times dergisini bugün deneyin ve yalnızca 10 £ karşılığında 10 sayı edinin – şimdi abone ol ve Doctor Who'nun 60. yılını Radio Times'ın özel sayısıyla kutlayın. TV'nin en büyük yıldızlarından daha fazlası için dinleyin Radyo Times Podcast'i.

[gundemburadadedim]

The Good Ship Murder'ın kalbinde dinamik olan/olmayacaklar mı? Bu hafta, yolcu gemisi şarkıcısı Jack (Shayne Ward) suç çözücü ortağının nişanını kabullenmekte zorlanırken daha da kötüye gidiyor.Geminin ikinci zabiti Kate'in (Catherine Tyldesley) denizci arkadaşı Piers (Geoffrey Breton) ile ilişkisi vardır, ancak bir cinayet onları bir araya getirdiğinden beri kendisi ve Jack arasında kimya kıvılcımları uçmaktadır.Jack, Kanal 5'in izniyle RadioTimes.com okuyucularına yayınlanan aşağıdaki özel klipte görüldüğü üzere, yarın akşamki bölümde (3 Kasım Cuma) gerçek duygularını saklamakta zorlanacak.Bu soğuk sohbetin ardından ikilinin açık denizlerdeki kötülükleri araştırmaya devam edip etmeyeceği, hatta birbirleriyle dostluklarını sürdürüp sürdüremeyecekleri de zaman gösterecek.Aşağıdan izleyin:Klipte Jack, Kate'i ilişkisinde yeterince eğlenmemekle suçlarken, Kate de Kate'in performansını asla bırakmadığını ve partiden ne zaman ayrılması gerektiğini öğrenmesi gerektiğini söylüyor.Gerçekten de her bölüm, yolcu gemisi şarkıcısının tıka basa dolu bir salona verdiği bir müzik numarasıyla bitiyor; aktör Ward bunu dizinin filme alınacak "fantastik" bir parçası olarak tanımlıyor.Söyledi RadyoTimes.com ve diğer basın: "İzleyicinin olmaması ya da izleyicinin olması gibi bir seçenek vardı ve ben 'İzleyiciye ihtiyacım var' dedim.Bilgilerinizi girerek şunları kabul etmiş olursunuz: Şartlar ve koşullar Ve Gizlilik Politikası. Aboneliğinizi istediğiniz zaman iptal edebilirsiniz."Aynı zamanda sanatçı kökenli biri olarak, bu şekilde gerçekten canlanıyorsunuz, çünkü kalabalığın enerjisinden besleniyorsunuz... Onları sahnede çalarken bir çığlık duydum ve umarım bu duyulur."The Good Ship Murder'ın bu ilk yolculuğunda kat edilecek daha çok kilometre var; ilk sezonu toplamda sekiz bölümden oluşuyor ve bu da bizi Aralık ayının başına kadar götürecek.İyi Gemi Cinayeti, 3 Kasım 2023 Cuma günü saat 21.00'de Kanal 5'te devam ediyor. Drama haberlerimize göz atın veya neler olduğunu öğrenmek için TV Rehberimizi ve Yayın Rehberimizi ziyaret edin.Radio Times dergisini bugün deneyin ve yalnızca 10 £ karşılığında 10 sayı edinin – şimdi abone ol ve Doctor Who'nun 60. yılını Radio Times'ın özel sayısıyla kutlayın. TV'nin en büyük yıldızlarından daha fazlası için dinleyin Radyo Times Podcast'i.

[angevinyaoiz]

Geoffrey SCverse: yes, I'm homophobic. Yes, I sucked off all the Breton nobility so everyone would calm down and like me. I'm a complex ecosystem

#homophobic Geoffrey