“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
I spent quite a bit of time with John Dryden (and The Gang) as I researched the 17th century. But I seem to have missed this poem of his. Well, it’s a translation…of Chaucer, I think (?) The whole poem is beautiful but these lines are relevant for me today :o) Just is your suit, […]
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Guess where one of the most famous depictions of The Nine Worthies is! Yup. The Piedmont. Northern Italy. A bit of Turin. A bit of Milan. A bit of Genoa. Same names, Savoy, d’Este, Sforza, Visconti plus Ferrara, De Guise, Borgia Gonzaga. Mmmmn. Curious!
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The Nine Worthies were : Jewish – King David, Joshua the Patriarch and Judas Maccabeus Pagan – Hector of Troy, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar Christian – Charlemagne, King Arthur, Godfrey of Bouillon There are many renditions of these characters but it’s believed that they first appeared in picture form in 1312. I’m intrigued […]
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If y’all have done your PROPER/ Thorough/ Decades of research into Rennes-le-Chateau, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Cathars, The Merovingians (Long-Haired Kings) Ormus, Mary Magdalene, Visigoths, The New Testament, Poussin, da Vinci, Teniers, Nostradamus, Rene d’Anjou, Jehanne d’Arc, Yolande of Aragon plus about a thousand… …y’all will know to whom the building of […]
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There is something rotten in the History of Italy. I first came across the image above a veeeeery long time ago when researching my novel. It’s the coat of arms of Hercule de Rohan-Montbazon. Hercule was the father of Marie de Rohan, the MC of Weave a Garland of my Vows. Check out – The […]
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And that must be the truest metaphor ever! I’ve spent the morning in a car park staring at the outside walls of Lincoln Prison. The prison is right across the road from the hospital – where I take a dearly beloved every couple of months or so for check-ups/treatment for his chronic dermatological issues. Although…this […]
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It should have been simple. Look up the name – just to check. Easy (?) The name is… Saint Paraskeva of the Balkans (also known as: Petka of Bulgaria, Petka of Serbia, Paraskeva of Serbia, Paraskeva the Serbian, Paraskeva of Belgrade, Parascheva the New, Parascheva the Young, Ancient Greek: Ὁσία Παρασκευὴ ἡ Ἐπιβατινή, Greek: Οσία Παρασκευή η Επιβατινή ή Νέα, Serbian: Света Петка / […]
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Having a free long weekend during my police training, I volunteered to spend three days being repeatedly murdered! LOL – not many people can start a conversation with that line :o) There was an intensive SOCO course taking place in the camp Crime Museum and they needed victims. I was given several short, sharp lessons […]
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I put a question the other day to the only person that I know who could possibly help me track down a man about whom I’ve found zero info. Not only did I get the much needed answer…..I also got a strange but Wonderful link from my mystery man to the author of The Raven. […]
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A New Road? Well, TY very much. I’ll take it…said I! First hurdle – Crash and burn and put it on the to-do-sometime list. Second hurdle – Yup. Heard of them. Put them on the check-later list. Third hurdle – WHO? Never heard of him. Let me do my usual Due Diligence. Now you are […]
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IT is trawling MY archives for IT’S desperate attempts at Self-Worth and Public Recognition. How sad :o( GB 24th July 2019 : How To Heal The World. And…to quote myself : Healing yourself in the present also heals all timelines. The karma of the past (the ancestors) and the future (those yet to be born.)
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Oh. Bum/Bottom/Fundament! This one is going to take ALL (!?) of my little grey cells to work it out. Eeeeeeeeek. So I have The Possession of Gerasa. And I start the research and, immediately, get confronted with Judea vs Jordan and a smidge of Josephus – Jewish Wars. Sigh.
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Hidden History Research 