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Thanks also to ReallyCoolPigeons for the reblog!
Author: johnmanders
I'm an illustrator, author and cartoonist. I'm writing history for kids: The Western Civ User's Guide to Time & Space AND The Western Civ User's Guide to Reading & Writing.
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Five centuries before Marvel decided to replace Tony Stark with a teenaged girl as Iron Man, here is Lady Elizabeth Tudor swashbuckling with the big boys.
Back in 16th-century England, there existed a martial-arts guild known as the “The Corporation of Masters of the Noble Science of Defence”, or the “Company of Masters”. Who is to say whether they admitted girls into their school?
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Huzzah, more sword-fighting—and trash-talking!
Embroidery was a pastime of aristocratic ladies in sixteenth-century England. They weren’t supposed to be sword-fighting, probably.
Hic, haec, hoc: ‘This, this, this’ in Latin; the nominative case; masculine, feminine & neuter. Lady Elizabeth Tudor was a clever language student. She amused herself by translating classical works from Latin to English. Beside Latin, Elizabeth was fluent in six languages, including Greek, French, and Italian.
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Sorry!—here are some Tudors
Apologies! I’m having some trouble working the buttons. I posted here yesterday evening with the intention of making the images easier to enlarge. It didn’t work and I deleted the post. Sorry if you were led here on a bootless enterprize.
To make amends, I post here today a few of the real-life personalities who’ve been dragooned into my story—even though some make mere cameo appearances. At least two of these (Jane & Henry) are by the great artist Hans Holbein, who was Henry’s court painter.
Catherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Jane Seymour
Henry VIII
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Hey, it’s Holy Week, everybody! So if you’d like to learn more about Mephistophilis’ reference to the busting-up of Israel and the Babylonian Exile, just pick up a handy Bible and read Kings 1 & 2 or Chronicles 1 & 2. Okay, okay, I know you don’t have time for all that. Here’s some quick info about Israel becoming a divided kingdom. Here’s all about the Babylonian Exile.
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