I’ve always had an interest in early history of Euope up to and including the Renaissance. But as it goes, job, study, etc took over and there wasn’t enough time left for reading, mainly because once I sit down to read... you know, ‘just’ that one chapter 😈... I’d find myself several hours later having missed a telephone call or forgetting tea time.
And these days picking up a book or subject invariably leads to the latter, that is until one of my cats sits on the book to draw my attention to the fact some bowls need filling.
I do understand, part of the idea of the book-club podcasts and blogs I do is to force myself to read a bare minimum of so many books and stuff no matter what.
I'm just happy to contribute some measure to your learning of history.
You know what you’ve done now, don’t you? Very gradually hauling me in to that part of history, almost unnoticed until it was too late and I was caught, hook, line and sinker.
Because now I will have to do more research on the Merovingean, Karolingean and Frankish eras which were once part of history lessons at school.
Oh Time, I beseech you, lend me some extra minutes to the hour 🙏
Hahaha sure, and hopefully soon we'll be able to also upload next week or the week after another Plantagenet episode, I'm hoping to also soon finally write an article on Mathilde just for you.
Honestly, I think the most fascinating era in French history is that from our Warring States period (the post Charlemagne period) up to Jehanne D'Arc's career.
Looking forward to the Mathilde article 😊
I’ve always had an interest in early history of Euope up to and including the Renaissance. But as it goes, job, study, etc took over and there wasn’t enough time left for reading, mainly because once I sit down to read... you know, ‘just’ that one chapter 😈... I’d find myself several hours later having missed a telephone call or forgetting tea time.
And these days picking up a book or subject invariably leads to the latter, that is until one of my cats sits on the book to draw my attention to the fact some bowls need filling.
I do understand, part of the idea of the book-club podcasts and blogs I do is to force myself to read a bare minimum of so many books and stuff no matter what.
I'm just happy to contribute some measure to your learning of history.
You know what you’ve done now, don’t you? Very gradually hauling me in to that part of history, almost unnoticed until it was too late and I was caught, hook, line and sinker.
Because now I will have to do more research on the Merovingean, Karolingean and Frankish eras which were once part of history lessons at school.
Oh Time, I beseech you, lend me some extra minutes to the hour 🙏
Hahaha sure, and hopefully soon we'll be able to also upload next week or the week after another Plantagenet episode, I'm hoping to also soon finally write an article on Mathilde just for you.
Honestly, I think the most fascinating era in French history is that from our Warring States period (the post Charlemagne period) up to Jehanne D'Arc's career.
And glad to have gotten you into history Joyce.
I wish there was a way to see how many minutes long this was.
11 minutes, and I've a fifteen minute podcast soon to be uploaded.
Sadly, I also can't restart it where I left off. (Got interrupted, closed your page.)
Hmm, that's annoying if you want here's the youtube link; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-idsNXMByhg&t=8s
As much as I dislike YouTube (part of the Google overlord system on the internet), I'll check it out.
I hate youtube also